Google office building evacuated after report of ‘suspicious package’

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

After an investigation, the police later said the parcel was safe. Authorities had called the Santa Clara County Bomb Team to assist with the examination. Police said they had evicted people from the building on Casey Avenue at the Googleplex “out of caution”.

Mountain View police made no further comment. Contacted for comment, a Google spokesperson referred CNET to Mountain View police statements.

This is not the first time that police have been called to investigate an incident on a Google campus. In 2018, a gunman terrorized Google-owned YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. The shooter was found dead from what police believed was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Three others were injured in the incident.