The US Embassy in Switzerland and Liechtenstein has issued a security alert connected, according to their website, with reports of an explosion in the area around the country's Consular Agency in Geneva.
The embassy has urged people to avoid the area and seek shelter if in the vicinity.
Commenting on the incident shortly after, a Geneva police spokesman explained that it was just an electrical fault.
"It was an accident, pure and simple, and there's no connection to the consulate", the police spokesman stated.
According to him, the electrical malfunction triggered a gas explosion.