The court registry was this morning evacuated after a strong smell of gas filled the underground level of the court building.
A court employee said people started smelling gas at around 9am but, because the directors were in a meeting, no instructions to evacuate were given. Some of those present at the time said they felt nauseous because of the gas odour.
The registry was briefly evacuated at around 11 am until members of the Civil Protection Department were called in to investigate.
It turned out that the smell was coming from the air conditioning system.