{"id":369523,"date":"2026-04-08T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369523\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:51:09","slug":"police-respond-to-suspicious-package-at-tate-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369523\/","title":{"rendered":"Police respond to ‘suspicious package’ at Tate Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"

8 Apr 2026, 12:17 Updated: 38m ago <\/p>\n

The gallery is expected to be open again soon.<\/p>\n

8 Apr 2026, 12:17 | Updated: 38m ago <\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

People enjoying the sunshine on the grass outside the Tate modern art gallery at Bankside, London, UK.<\/p>\n

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Emergency services, including police and the London Fire Brigade, descended on the Tate Modern this afternoon following reports of a suspicious package.<\/p>\n

Police attended the scene at around 11:30am.<\/p>\n

The London Fire Brigade also attended the scene. <\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the LFB told LBC: “Firefighters have been called to assist police at an incident on Bankside.<\/p>\n

Read more: Tate Modern attacker jailed for 16 weeks after assaulting Broadmoor staff<\/a><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the LFB told LBC: “Firefighters have been called to assist police at an incident on Bankside.<\/p>\n

“The Brigade was called at 11:30am.<\/p>\n

“Two fire engines from Dowgate and Soho fire stations are at the scene.”<\/p>\n

Officers have now stood down.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Tate said: “A temporary cordon was put in place this morning while the emergency services removed a suspicious package found on the riverside.<\/p>\n

“This meant that some of the entrances to Tate Modern were briefly inaccessible, but the gallery remained open and the cordon has since been removed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8 Apr 2026, 12:17 Updated: 38m ago The gallery is expected to be open again soon. 8 Apr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-369523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}