Amazon has to shut down the construction of a new US warehouse after seven nooses had been found on-site in the last month.

The noose corresponds with hanging, or lynging, of mainly African American people in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries..  

Construction will be stopped at the Windsor, Connecticut, site until security measures are put into place. Amazon has said it was "deeply disturbed by the incidents happening.”

Amazon has since then offered a $100,000 reward for any information on the nooses which had first been discovered on April 27. Amazon spokeswoman, Kelly Nantel said: "We continue to be deeply disturbed by the incidents happening at the construction site in Windsor and have ordered its shut down until necessary security measures can be put in place.”

She added that the firm is working with the Windsor Police Department on this matter. Windsor Police said that the first noose was found hanging from a steel beam within the site on April 27, before five more ropes "that could be interpreted as nooses" were found on several different floors two days later. Construction continued until a seventh noose was found. 

The ropes had been hung in areas without surveillance. Hundreds of construction workers that have been employed by many different companies were working on-site, which means the police have very limited information, the statement said.

by Angela Yi