BREAKING NEWS - A busy street in downtown Wellington has
been cordoned off following a shattered window in
a high-rise government building.
Emergency services were
alerted to a broken window on the tenth floor of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs And Trade on Lambton Quay
shortly before 2pm.
Update, 4pm: Lambton Quay has been re-opened.
The footpath and road outside the
building is strewn with shards of glass but no pedestrians have been injured and the area has since been
cordoned off.
Police and fire officers are on the scene
and traffic heading towards the city is being redirected
down Panama St instead.
Police say the glass appears to have slipped from its fixings.
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