Police and army bomb disposal team sent to incident in Manchester’s Hulme area

UPDATE: 11:42am

A suspicious package which prompted an alert in Hulme has been deemed safe, Greater Manchester Police said.

An army bomb disposal team was sent to the scene and several roads were closed, including Linby Street and Jackson Street.

But GMP later said the incident “has now been deemed safe and the cordon has been removed”.

AN army bomb disposal team is attending an incident in Hulme, Greater Manchester Police say.

The force said it was too early to say whether the alert is linked to its investigation into the Manchester bomb attack.

It said several roads were closed and officers were “currently assessing the situation”.

A student from a college to the south of the scene where the army unit was sent posted a picture on Twitter showing a plume of smoke.

It was not immediately clear whether the smoke was coming from the area where the alert was – around Linby Street and Jackson Crescent.