Suitcase detonation gallery

Boston police received a report of a suspicious, unattended package next to a Homeland Security SUV parked next to the US Coast Guard building.

A Boston police bomb squad member is suited up before the suitcase is detonated.

Officers used a robot to safely detonate the package.

Boston police officers sent in the robot.

The detonation robot approaches the suspicious suitcase.

The robot carries the suitcase away from the vehicle.

Boston police investigators examine the contents of the suitcase after it was detonated.

Boston police secured the area around the suitcase and shut down Atlantic Avenue.