Rome mayor: Colosseum device that prompted evacuation of tourists a false alarm

ROME — A suspicious device that forced the evacuation of the Colosseum on Sunday turned out to be a false alarm, Rome's mayor said.

The Colosseum was evacuated about an hour before the site was scheduled to close after tourists saw a suspicious device inside.

"It's a false alarm, a joke in bad taste," Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno told Sky News 24. "It seemed like it could be a bomb, but in reality it could not explode."

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Peter Wallsten 08 Aug, 2011

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