There have been reports of an explosion outside the US embassy in Beijing.
Photos posted on Twitter show a large amount of smoke and what appear to be police vehicles surrounding the vast building in the northeast of the Chinese capital.
Scene at the US embassy in Beijing, where witnesses say they heard an explosion about an hour ago. Police ordering onlookers back and stopping us filming. But no ongoing operation it seems pic.twitter.com/3KqW3RGfTM
— Tom Cheshire (@chesh) July 26, 2018
Sky's Asia correspondent Tom Cheshire, who is at the scene, says police are ordering onlookers back and picking up debris using white gloves.
A witness spoken to by the Reuters news agency says they have seen officers examining a vehicle outside the embassy.
Police in white gloves picking up debris and sealing it in clear plastic gloves. Looks like everything happened outside embassy, not within gates pic.twitter.com/K6l0MhV9Aa
— Tom Cheshire (@chesh) July 26, 2018
Another witness said seven or eight police vehicles were at the scene and the road next to the large complex has been closed off.
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The area where the incident has taken place is on the outskirts of the city and is home to a number of embassies, including those of India and Israel.
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