The package is located in Boston in the Northeast U.K. exploded, 1 injured
Boston police said one person was injured Tuesday night when a suspicious package exploded inside a campus building at Northeast University.
Officers were called after 7:15 p.m. to Holmes Hall at 39 Lyon Street, which houses the creative writing center on the campus of the private university, for a suspicious package that exploded, officials said.
Officer Andre Watson, a spokesman for the police department, said one man was taken to a regional hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police, its bomb squad, the Boston Fire Department and Boston Emergency Medical Services were helping with the investigation at the University, which has an undergraduate population of about 15,700 students.
Holmes Hall was evacuated as a precaution, Officer Watson said Tuesday night, adding that the investigation was ongoing.
The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Northeastern University Police Department encouraged people to avoid the area around Holmes Hall and said classes in at least six buildings were canceled for the night.
According to the local TV station report, Mike Budett, a reporter for WCVB, was teaching a class during the explosion and although his classroom was evacuated, he did not hear an explosion.