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Carlsbad Grocery Store Reopens After Suspicious Bag Found

A Vons grocery store in Carlsbad has reopened after shoppers were evacuated for more than two hours because of a suspicious bag.

Carlsbad police were called to a report of a suspicious bag just before 10 a.m. in the 6900 block of El Camino Real.

Carlsbad police said on Twitter that an employee at the Vons grocery store reported an unidentified plastic bag with heavy contents, so officers cleared the area while they examine the bag.

By 11:30 a.m., offficers said they were waiting for experts to examine the bag and were asking Vons shoppers to continue to stay patient as the grocery store was evacuated.

By 12:30 p.m., the grocery store had reopened and officers were given the all clear.

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