Overview
- Emergency services responded on Saturday afternoon to a building on London Road near Victoria Park after a report of a suspicious smell.
- Police closed the city-bound stretch from Evington Road as a cordon was established and nearby premises, including a restaurant, were evacuated as a precaution.
- Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service deployed its Hazardous Materials and Environmental Protection team, with Leicestershire Police and East Midlands Ambulance Service also in attendance.
- An official update later confirmed the operation was scaling down with no injuries reported and the road expected to reopen shortly.
- The incident followed a separate response days earlier in Loughborough’s Baxter Gate area where a potentially hazardous substance prompted precautionary evacuations.