An incident in which a teenager reportedly left a ‘suspicious item’ outside Rochdale police station and ‘confronted’ officers with a knife is not believed to be terror-related, police have confirmed.
Officers were called to Dane Street, near to GMP’s base in the town centre, in the early hours of this morning — after receiving reports of a ‘suspicious item’.
When cops arrived at the scene, they were ‘confronted’ by a teenager who was armed with a weapon. The incident led to a huge cordon across Rochdale, with a large portion of the A58 shut off for much of the day.
Police bomb disposal experts used a robot to carry out two controlled explosions of the item — shortly before 7am and at roughly 10am — which was later found to be non-viable.
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