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NYPD Bomb Squad Clears Package Outside Brooklyn Synagogue

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The NYPD bomb squad has given the all clear after investigating a possible suspicious package outside a synagogue in Brooklyn.

Police were called around 8 a.m. to Glenwood Road in Flatbush.

Possible Suspicious Package Outside Brooklyn Synagogue

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Posted by CBS New York on Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Sources said a brown box was found outside Congregation B'nai Jacob of Flatbush, an Orthodox Jewish synagogue.

The bomb squad could be seen using an X-ray and opening the box.

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