A man carrying two gas cans, lighter fluid and lighters tried to enter New York City’s famed St Patrick’s Cathedral on Wednesday but was stopped by a security officer and taken into custody, NBC News reports, citing an NYPD official.
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The incident comes days after the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned in what officials in France say they think could be an accident, and renovation work was being done at the time it broke out. Police said that the NYPD maintains a robust security presence at the Cathedral at all times, but that the department had added to that in recent days.