Arson squad takes over after suspicious package found downtown

WATCH: Montreal police bomb squad investigated a suspicious package at the Berri bus depot.

MONTREAL – Traffic is back to normal after the Montreal police bomb squad investigated a suspicious package that was left on the corner of Berri and Ontario streets.

Police received the 911 call at 11:20 a.m.

A large area between de Maisonneuve, Sherbrooke, Saint-Denis and Saint-Hubert streets had been closed off, but is now back to normal.

“The package itself has been transferred to the arson squad. We don’t know what was inside.”

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The contents of the box are still considered suspicious.

Emran said he could not provide more detail until the arson squad takes a look at what’s inside.

There were no injuries.