Google office building evacuated after ‘suspicious package’ report

A commercial building at Google’s global headquarters in Mountain View, California, was evacuated Friday after a report of a “suspicious package”, police said.

After an investigation, the police later said the package was safe. Authorities called the Santa Clara County bomb squad to assist with the examination. Police said they removed people from the building, on Casey Avenue, at the Googleplex, “just in case.”

Mountain View police did not comment further. Obtained for comment, a Google spokesman referred CNET to the Mountain View Police statements.

This is not the first time that the police are called to investigate an incident on a Google campus. In 2018, a sniper terrorized Google-owned YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. The sniper was found dead in what the police believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Three other people were injured in the incident.