The county bomb squad, investigating a suspicious package in Landover, determined it was a cell phone and associated electronic equipment being sent to the World Bank in the District.
The bomb squad arrived at about at about 1p.m. to the Landover site of the contractor that screens the World Bank's mail.
The squad finished its operations at about 5p.m.
Using a bomb squad robot, the team extracted the package containing the suspected explosive device from a conveyor belt in the loading dock of Kane 3PL, the contractor located in the 3600 block of Pennsy Drive.
Two water projectiles were fired at the package and the components were exposed, and firefighters soon determined the package was not an explosive device at all.
At first, county fire and police officials confirmed that the package contained components needed to construct explosives after learning that employees spotted the package while X-raying mail.
A partial evacuation of the building was undertaken.
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