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Two NYPD counterterrorism officers were approached just after 7 a.m. by a subway passenger who noticed suspicious items at the Fulton Street station. The items turned out to be rice cookers, one on the mezzanine level and one on the 2/3 subway lines platform.

\"UPDATE: ALL CLEAR. The suspicious packages have been fully investigated and have been deemed safe by our @NYPDCT officers,\" the NYPD tweeted just before 9 a.m.

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PHOTO: John Miller, Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism for the NYPD, speaks to the press near the scene of a suspicious package near the Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan on August 16, 2019, in New York.
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PHOTO: A pressure cooker at the Fulton Street subway station in Manhattan, Aug. 16, 2019, was investigated by the bomb squad.
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The MTA said to expect delays and changes to service on the 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J and Z lines due to the investigation. During the initial investigation, one train was evacuated at Fulton Street.

\"This was a serious incident and we took it very seriously,\" MTA chief Andy Byford said.

UPDATE: ALL CLEAR. The suspicious packages have been fully investigated and have been deemed safe by our @NYPDCT officers.

Expect residual delays in the Fulton Street area and check @NYCTSubway for train service updates. https://t.co/24hpqai1xr

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) August 16, 2019

A third suspicious package, this one placed next to a trash can at 16th Street and Seventh Avenue, has also been deemed to be nothing more than a rice cooker. It \"may or may not be related,\" to the Fulton Street devices, NYPD Chief Ed Delatorre said.

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PHOTO: One of the devices found inside Fulton Street Subway station in New York, August 16, 2019.
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\"UPDATE: ALL CLEAR. The suspicious package at 16th St & 7th Ave in Manhattan has been fully investigated and deemed safe by our @NYPDCT officers,\" the NYPD tweeted.

UPDATE: ALL CLEAR. The suspicious package at 16th St & 7th Ave in Manhattan has been fully investigated and deemed safe by our @NYPDCT officers.

Expect residual delays in the area.

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) August 16, 2019

Detectives are looking for video of the 16th Street and Seventh Avenue location to determine whether the same person placed a cooking device near a trash can.

ABC News' Alexandra Svokos and Ella Torres contributed to this report.

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