Belgium: alarm bomb airplanes flying to Brussels – Onet.pl

Media reported that in connection with bomb alarms at the international airport in Brussels, declared a state of emergency and mobilized firefighters and medical services. After hours. 20 Belgian Red Cross has announced that the extraordinary measures introduced at the airport have been canceled.

– Currently there is no specific threat – said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, commenting on reports of a bomb alarm, which first reported the Flemish public broadcaster VRT. – Safety measures are not introduced, not ordered a meeting (government) cell crisis – he said, appealing to not to panic. Not confirmed that the bomb alerts were announced.

But before Eric Van der sypte, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in the federal Brussels, informed the media that the airport made “some measures” as a result of the information about the threat that the authorities issued a “sufficiently serious”. In turn, the federal prosecutor later provide French-language public broadcaster RTBF that “the threat was not serious.”

Passenger plane from Oslo, Flemish journalist Bart Raes announced on Twitter that 20 minutes before the scheduled landing, the captain informed the passengers about the alarm bomb. After landing, the passengers after 10 minutes allowed to leave the plane.

Journal ‘Le Soir’ reported that information about the threat of the Belgian ministry got from abroad. It now has to be investigated.

In March, Brussels Airport and the subway have become targets of terrorist attacks, which admitted the Islamic State. They killed 32 people. Many of the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks in Paris in November last year. Year, which killed 130 people, also lived in Brussels.

Previously, the federal prosecutor’s office in Brussels said that” the threat is serious enough “to enter the extraordinary security measures. At the airport erected, among others, in standby firefighters and medical services.

In connection with the bomb alarms at the international airport in Brussels announced state of emergency. Just after the hour. 20 Belgian Red Cross said that the announced extraordinary security measures have been canceled.

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