WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Pentagon lifted the lockdown roughly an hour and a half after multiple gunshots were fired near the Metro bus platform, outside the building yesterday.
The Pentagon Force Protection Agency, which sent out a lockdown alert, following the “shooting event,” said that, the facility reopened and the “scene of the incident is secure” though remains an active crime scene.
The gunman was shot by a Pentagon police, and did not get inside the Pentagon building, the agency’s official said. One other officer was injured and sent to hospital.
“The Pentagon lifted the lockdown and has reopened,” the agency said. “We request that everyone stay away from the Metro rail entrance and bus platform area.”
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said, trains and busses were bypassing their stops at the transit centre due to the investigation.
The Metro bus platform, a major entrance to the Pentagon, is used by multiple bus lines in the area every day. It was closed in Mar, 2020, after a man was fatally stabbed on the platform, but reopened hours afterwards.– NNN-XINHUA
