Security alert after lorry container dumped because it was 'too large'

An abandoned shipping container sparked a security alert after the driver dumped it because it was "too large".

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Police placed the residential road on lockdown as they carried out a fingertip search of the area.

The container was dumped close to a synagogue in Ravensdale Road, Stamford Hill.

After finding nothing suspicious inside the container, detectives searched under cars parked nearby.

According to the Hackney Gazette, a lorry driver had left it in the road because his load of two containers was too long for him to get round a bend.

The driver reportedly returned, after getting the first container to its intended destination, to find a swarm of police.

The road in north London was reopened at just after 10am, about an hour after police were called to the scene.