Partial evacuation ends after suspicious package investigated at state Capitol

ATLANTA - State employees are returning to work at the Georgia Capitol after suspicious packages discovered there prompted a partial evacuation this morning.

Trooper Larry Schnall, a spokesman for the Capitol Police, said one or more suspicious packages were found at the Capitol Wednesday morning at about 10 a.m.. State local and federal authorities responded.

Part of the Capitol was evacuated while a bomb detection unit investigated

The packages were removed and employees were being allowed back into the building.

Schnall said he did not know who the packages were intended for or what made them suspicious. He said the Georgia Bureau if Investigation would take over the investigation.

A spokesman for Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said he was not at the office Wednesday.

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