Students at Eastern Connecticut State University were told to stay in their dorm rooms after a suspicious package was found in a dorm building on Wednesday morning.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the situation was over. The suspicious package turned out to be toilet paper in a box wrapped in brightly colored electrical tape.



State police, Willimantic police and firefighters, as well as the bomb squad and regional hazmat teams, responded after getting a call just after 11 a.m. and the package was brought to a hazmat room inside one of the science buildings on campus for further examination.



Students were alerted through the university-wide text alert system.

Students were allowed out of their dorms as of afternoon.

