Polish police cordon off Warsaw square amid reports of bomb threat
© Reuters. Police officers work near a suspected bomb threat site on Pilsudski Square, in Warsaw, Poland October 14, 2023. REUTERS/Kacper PempelWARSAW -Police cordoned off Warsaw's Pilsudski Square and the surrounding area of the Polish capital on Saturday, with local media reporting that a man had climbed onto a monument in the square and threatened to blow himself up.
Footage posted on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, had showed a man standing on top of the Smolensk monument, which commemorates the victims of a 2010 air disaster that killed 96 people including President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria.
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