POLICE descended on the Pickersleigh Road area of Malvern on Sunday evening in an incident that involved calling in the bomb squad.

Witnesses reported that lots of police were in the area in the late afternoon and early evening of Sunday, with rumours circulating at the incident involved explosives.

A commenter on the Worcester News's Facebook page referred to "all the police and bomb squad on Pickersleigh Road", while a Twitter user tweeted: "Whole of Malvern police force on Pickersleigh Road because some mad man has been making bombs".

Insp Lee Mackintosh confirmed yesterday that an incident took place on Sunday that involved calling in explosive ordnance disposal experts to give advice, but could give no further details at that point.

He said more information was likely to be released tomorrow.

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