{"id":520072,"date":"2026-04-08T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:09:08","slug":"tate-modern-incident-recap-popular-london-tourist-attraction-evacuated-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520072\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate Modern incident RECAP: Popular London tourist attraction evacuated | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-Tate Modern was evacuated at around 11.30am after reports of a suspicious package.<\/p>\n<p>-Emergency services, including police, ambulance crews and the London Fire Brigade, rushed to the scene in Bankside, Southwark.<\/p>\n<p>-Two fire engines from Dowgate and Soho fire stations were sent to assist police.<\/p>\n<p>-Social media footage showed multiple emergency vehicles and what appeared to be an explosive ordnance disposal lorry near the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>-A cordon was put in place around Tate Modern and nearby areas.Millennium Bridge, which sits beside the gallery on the riverfront, was also evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>-Some unconfirmed reports on social media suggested nearby offices were also evacuated after a suspicious package was reportedly delivered to a reception area next door to Tate Modern.<\/p>\n<p>-Police later confirmed the suspicious package was assessed and found not to be harmful.<\/p>\n<p>-The cordon was lifted, officers stood down and both Tate Modern and Millennium Bridge reopened.<\/p>\n<p>-The Met Police said they would not comment on what the package was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"-Tate Modern was evacuated at around 11.30am after reports of a suspicious package. -Emergency services, including police, ambulance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,3846,96,388,288,42991,181034,181033,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-520072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-emergency-news","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-tate-modern","17":"tag-tate-modern-emergency","18":"tag-tate-modern-incident","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}