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A bomb robot was deployed to Mestre Station in Venice, and paramedics were also called in.

Italian authorities cleared the area surrounding abandoned suitcase near the station’s new multi-storey car park.

But after investigating the source concluded that it did not pose any danger.

The incident comes as Europe is on high alert following a number of terror attacks in the last two three years