Four stores at New Brite Plaza, on East Main Street in New Britain, were evacuated on Friday morning because a pressure cooker was left in a shopping cart in front of a grocery store.
The Dunkin’ Donuts, Ocean State Job Lot, Save-a-Lot and Marshalls were evacuated around 7:45 a.m. after a Save-a-Lot employee noticed something suspicious.
A pressure cooker, which was out of the package, had been left in a shopping cart, according to police.
Police examined the package in the New Britain Plaza and determined it was not dangerous.
New Britain is one of several cities where buildings or shopping centers have been evacuated over abandoned pressure cookers since the bombings at the Boston Marathon in April.
Three people were killed in the bombings and more than 260 others were injured when two pressure cooker bombs filled with shrapnel went off at the finish line of the marathon.
The pressure cooker left in the New Britain plaza was empty, according to police, and the plaza reopened around 9:45 a.m.
Investigators will be looking at surveillance from surrounding businesses to see how the pressure cooker got there.
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