Bank employees evacuated after powder scare

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Hendrik Schmidt/EPADeutsche Bank employees leave their office in security clothes in Schkanditz, Germany, Sept. 28, after an envelope with white powder was found in the building.By ReutersForty Deutsche Bank employees from an office in the eastern German town  of Schkeuditz near Leipzig are undergoing health checks after a letter  containing a white powder was found at their building, local German  police said on Friday.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld Around 700 people were evacuated from the  building, a spokesman for West Saxony police said. The substance, which  was found in an envelope, and employees who may have come into contact  with it were being checked, police said.

Photographs from local media show firemen and local police wearing protective clothing and gas masks.

A  Deutsche Bank spokesman said he could not confirm the details from the  police but said the building housed back-office operations for Germany's  biggest lender.

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Powder, maybe a letter bomb, its good they took precaution by evacuating staffs of the building.