Fake bomb causes scare at Jerusalem shopping center

A fake bomb was left at a busy Jerusalem shopping mall Sunday, prompting security guards to summon police sappers to defuse it

The Israel Police said it received a report of a suspicious package left in the Hadar Mall on General Pierre Koenig Street in the southern part of the city.

Sappers arrived to check the package and discovered that it was a fake bomb, police said in a statement.

The object was taken away for further examination in the bomb squad laboratories at the city’s national police headquarters.

Evidence was gathered at the scene, police said.

Traffic outside the mall, which had been interrupted by the event, was restored to normal.

The incident came as a Palestinian teenager stabbed an Israeli man to death at a Israeli shopping mall in the West Bank, south of the capital.