Police sealed off St. Paul’s Cathedral in London this afternoon

shortly after a suspicious package was discovered inside the building, one of the city’s top tourist spots. Sources in London told The Living Church the streets surrounding the cathedral were blocked by police and fire trucks.

The nearby St. Paul’s subway station remained open, but tour buses parked next to the cathedral, visible from behind the barricades, appeared to have been emptied of passengers.

The bomb scare came hours after a terror attack on London’s transport system. Three subway trains and a London bus were evacuated after small explosions went off. Police report one person was injured.

Sir Ian Blair of the Metropolitan Police Commission told the media the attacks came on a bus from Victoria Station passing through Shoreditch and on subway trains near the Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd’s Bush stations beginning at 1:30 p.m. London time.

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