Emergency services have seized the package, days after a man was arrested for allegedly sending 38 suspicious parcels

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The Samoan consulate in Sydney has been evacuated after a suspicious package was discovered.

New South Wales police were called to Scott Street in Liverpool about 10am on Friday and the office was evacuated.

“An item has been seized by Fire and Rescue NSW and will be forensically examined,” a police spokesman said.

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A Fire and Rescue spokesman said 10 people were evacuated as a precaution and two people were also decontaminated.

The suspicious package was not opened so there’d been no spillage.

It comes after police arrested a man from north-east Victoria for allegedly sending 38 suspicious parcels to consulates and embassies in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.

The 48-year-old man was arrested at his home in Shepparton on Wednesday night after emergency services spent several hours responding to reports of suspicious packages sent to at least 14 consulates in Melbourne, including those of the UK, US and India.