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Updates as Wallace tunnel closed by police after “incident”

The Wallasey Tunnel is closed as police respond to an incident inside.

The Kingsway Tunnel was closed by police in the direction of Liverpool to Wallace around 5 pm on Wednesday, May 25 after an “incident”. The INRIX Traffic Monitoring Service reports “very slow” traffic due to the police incident.

There are also long queues in the city center with delays on Leeds and Islington streets. Merseytravel confirmed that Tunels Police was responding to an incident inside and ECHO requested more information.

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Traffic passing through the Wallasey Tunnel to Liverpool was not affected by the incident.

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