Enfield bomb scare: Street evacuated after suspect package found

The suspect package was found outside Caffe Nero on Church Street

The area was cordoned off by police (Getty)

Enfield’s high street has been evacuated after police were alerted to a suspect package outside a local café in the era.

Concerned locals called the Metropolitan Police at 8.30 this morning regarding a suitcase abandoned outside Caffe Nero on Church Street.

The suitcase was subject to a controlled explosion by officers while commuters and locals were kept back by a police cordon.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed a controlled explosion had taken place but that officers had been stood down after the bag turned out not to have been a bomb.

The bomb scare follows a controlled explosion of an abandoned car outside Baker Street station last night.

That station had been evacuated, as had Aldgate earlier in the day.

On Thursday Liverpool Street had been evacuated, while Warren Street had also been subject to similar precautions earlier in the week.

Security cordons have also been established in various other parts of the capital, including near Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in the past week.

The series of security alerts follows a stepping up of security following the Paris terror attacks which happened on Friday.