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Lenoir City Walmart evacuated after bomb threat, no device found

According to dispatchers, police searched the store and did not find a bomb after it was evacuated for a threat that was called in.

Dozens of people had to evacuate a Lenoir City Walmart after a bomb threat had been called in Friday evening.

According to Loudon County dispatch, Lenoir City police responded to the store off Highway 321 around 5:56 p.m.

Dispatch said people inside the Walmart were evacuated to a nearby Zaxby's restaurant.

Dispatch said police searched the store and did not find anything. Police told dispatchers they had cleared the scene and were letting people back into the store.

In the past few days, there have been numerous unsubstantiated bomb threats made at Walmart stores across the country. Media outlets in North Carolina, California, Iowa and other states have reported similar incidents in the past week.

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