Bomb squad checks item at Port of Miami

MIAMI, Jan 8 (Reuters) A police bomb squad was sent to the Port of Miami to investigate a suspicious item being unloaded from a truck today but police could not confirm television news reports that tests had detected C-4 explosives.

Scanning instruments detected an anomaly on a pallet being removed from a truck, and the Miami-Dade County Police bomb squad was sent to the busy cruise and cargo port for further investigation, spokesman Roy Rutland said.

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