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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Hazardous material experts were called to U.N. headquarters on Monday after a suspicious powder was discovered on the 27th floor, but there was no evacuation and no cause for alarm, security staff said.
The New York Fire Department's hazardous materials unit was called in ``as a precautionary matter'' after the powder was found in an office of the U.N. Department of Management.
While the emergency crew was cleaning up the area, a second report was received of a powdery substance next to a U.N. Credit Union cash machine on the first floor, security aides said.
Samples of both substances were taken for analysis and both areas were cleaned up although one office on the 27th floor remained closed, pending a second cleaning, they said.
``There is no cause for alarm. Business can proceed as usual,'' a security office aide said in a message to staff broadcast on the U.N. headquarters building's public address system.
A hazardous materials unit van, accompanied by several fire trucks and police cars had showed up at the U.N. compound on Manhattan's East Side at about 10 a.m.
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