The police immediately closed off roads leading to the area, located between Vauxhall and Lambeth bridges over the Thames.
Firefighters closed off roads, sealed buildings and donned special breathing masks to ferret out the source of the acrid smell, The Times of London reported.
But after the first attacks struck Wednesday morning, security forces closed off roads, lending a sense of siege to the capital that will continue over the next several days leading up to the culmination of the Shiite religious festival on Saturday.
Even as authorities closed off roads to Ayodhya, fearing riots there, Omkar Bhave, a council official, said at a news conference here that those who want to help build the temple, whose construction is planned for March 15, should all head for Ayodhya.
NATO peacekeeping troops closed off roads between Serbia and northern Kosovo, and United Nations police officers guarded checkpoints still smoldering after they were burned down Tuesday by several hundred Serbs in what the police said appeared to be an organized operation, The Associated Press reported.
Police closed off roads near the parliament building and warned of traffic congestion in Jerusalem, but within 20 minutes of the ceremony's start the flow of mourners had slowed to a steady trickle and for much of the time media and Knesset officials outnumbered the public.
After making the 25-minute walk from the school, accompanied by police who had closed off roads, protesters massed in front of the locked entrance to the pool, which is reached through a building with an aesthetic of country-club-meets-alpine-chalet.
Millions of starlings binging on olives have forced authorities in Rome to close off roads caked in droppings.
The tightly knit community has the reputation for playing by its own rules — closing off roads for a street hockey game or a block party, and especially at Halloween.
"Anyway, the payoff was that when we did a video in Torquay the council were sort of giddy with excitement to help us out, closing off roads and stuff".
