New York shuts bridge after truck found abandoned
From Reuters:Interesting that the article does not say whether or not there was anything wrong with the truck.NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City's Triborough Bridge was shut down on Wednesday night after police said a truck, smelling of gas, was found abandoned on the busy thoroughfare.
New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said a worker on the bridge that connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx found the vehicle abandoned by its driver and apparently smelling of gas.
The New York police bomb squad was investigating the vehicle, law enforcement sources said.
Browne said the vehicle was a U-Haul rental truck with Arizona license plates. It was left on a Manhattan-bound service road leading from the Bronx, he said. Fire officials were responding.
The closure of the span, also known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, came days after a failed bomb attack on New York's Times Square that has heightened security concerns in America's most populous city.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the Times Square plot was the 11th thwarted attack on New York City since hijacked airliners destroyed the World Trade Center's twin towers on September 11, 2001, killing more than 2,600 people.
From ABC News:
Authorities say a bomb squad has been called in after a U-Haul truck with an Arizona license plate was abandoned near a Manhattan bridge toll booth Wednesday night.
According to CNN, New York's Robert F. Kennedy Bridge has been shut down as authorities investigate.
CNN reports a witness saw the driver run from the truck which was abandoned near a Manhattan toll booth.
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