![]() It was closed in March 2020 after a man was fatally stabbed on the platform and reopened hours afterwards. 0:00 1:37 Pentagon lockdown lifted after shots were fired near the Metro stop Gunshots were fired Tuesday morning near the entrance of the Pentagon, resulting in multiple injuries. The Metro bus platform, a major entrance to the Pentagon, is used by multiple bus lines in the area every day. Few details about the episode were available after the Pentagon was placed on lockdown following what a spokesperson called a shooting event. Pat Milton and Andres Triay contributed to this report. This guy is from the Pentagon and while I've been out of the country. that the lockdown was lifted and the facility reopened. Yeah, I'm not a fan, either, I admit as the aircraft begins to lift from the. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said trains and busses were bypassing their stops at the transit center due to the investigation. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency announced just before 12:15 p.m. “We request that everyone stay away from the Metro rail entrance and bus platform area.” ![]() the Pentagon building on the outskirts of Washington, DC at 09.36 hours. “The Pentagon has lifted the lock down and has reopened,” the agency said on Twitter. Manhattan is in a virtual lockdown state, ' says a Coast Guard spokesman. According to reports, there have been multiple injuries and one police officer even died. One other officer was injured and sent to hospital. The lockdown on Pentagon has been lifted as of now (Andy Dunaway/USAF via Getty Images) Pentagon was put on lockdown after gunshots were fired Tuesday morning, August 3, near its entrance. The gunman was shot by a Pentagon police officer and did not get inside the Pentagon building, the agency’s official told POLITICO. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency, which sent out a lockdown alert following the “shooting event,” said at the noon time that the facility reopened and the “scene of the incident is secure” though remains an active crime scene, Xinhua news agency reported. Washington: The Pentagon lifted the lockdown roughly an hour and a half after multiple gunshots were fired near the Metro bus platform outside the building on Tuesday morning.
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