Today, August 22, at about 9 a.m., received an anonymous call about the mining of Arlington national cemetery.
According to the official statement of the group of Arlington National Cemetery on Twitter, all visitors and employees of a military cemetery have been evacuated from public buildings and work sites.
Emergency rescue service are investigating. At the scene are police and investigators from the neighboring military base Myer-Henderson Hall.
Arlington National Cemetery officials and @JBMHH emergency services are currently responding to a #BombThreat to the cemetery.
All families, visitors and employees have been evacuated safely from all public buildings and work areas while the threat is being investigated. pic.twitter.com/x4Q2RRKA33
— Arlington National Cemetery (@ArlingtonNatl) August 22, 2018
The representative of the administration of the cemetery Barbara Lewandrowski said that information about victims or victims did not arrive, the evacuation was successful. Competent service check «every piece of land and object».
As of 1130 the cemetery was closed to the public, however, took the funeral procession.
Arlington national cemetery, owned by the Ministry of the U.S. army, in the suburbs of Washington. Its total area is 624 acres (of 2.53 km2).
