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[rfmcdonald]

Well. This explains that toronto posting.

A section of downtown Toronto shut down amid a bomb scare this afternoon will reopen around 4:45 p.m., police said.

The incident occurred when a man enetered a cab and said he had a bomb.

The Emergency Task Force, bomb disposal unit and trained negotiators attended the scene at Bloor and St. George Sts., where the man remained in the cab from about 1:40 p.m., said Staff Sgt. Kevin Suddes.

"We have a report form a cab driver that picked up a fare (that) a male adult in the taxi said to him that he had a type of bomb," said Suddes. "The taxi driver parked the taxi cab and then called 911."

The taxi driver was no longer in the cab, Suddes said. The type of bomb the man said he has was unknown.

Bloor St. was evacuated and blocked off to traffic in all directions at St. George as trained negotiators talk with the man in the cab, Suddes said.
The man was eventually taken to hospital and there was no bomb, police said.

When I passed by at 4:30, the taxi cab in question was still hitched to a police tow truck, and yellow police tape and onlookers abounded.