Police investigated a suspected pickup that contained explosive equipment outside the National Assembly Library on Capitol Hill and evacuated the area around the building.

Capitol police said the officers were responding to a suspicious car near the National Assembly Library.

National Assembly Library in Washington, USA in December 2013.

Executive officials said that the surveillance investigators are determining whether the device is at risk of explosion and whether the man in the car has an explosive device.

Police blocked the roads around the Capitol complex when fire trucks and rescue reached the scene.

The incident happened a few months after a pipe bomb was left at the headquarters of the Democratic Party Committee and the Republican National Committee in Washington, one day before thousands of riots support Trump rushes

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