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1st LD Writethru: Belgium's plane bomb alerts turn out to be false

Xinhua, August 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

The two airplanes threatened by bomb alerts Wednesday have both landed at Brussels' Zaventem airport safely with nothing suspicious being found, according to local media reports.

"Currently, there is no concrete threat," Belgian newspaper Le Soir quoted spokesperson of the Interior Minister Jan Jambon as saying. The planes have been searched by explosive detection dogs, and nothing suspicious were found.

"It seems to be a false bomb threat," said Eric Van Der Sypt, spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office.

Emergency medical plan had been put in place at Zaventem airport following the information that there might be bombs on two airplanes run by the Scandinavian airline.

Passengers on both planes, one from Oslo, Norway and the other from Arlanda, Sweden, have left the plane orderly. The operation of the airport is now back to normal, according to working staff at the Zaventem airport.

There have been several false bomb alarms in Belgium since the March 22 terror attacks in Brussels that killed 32 people. Security alert in Belgium remains level three, the 2nd highest on a four-tier scale, after the attack. Endit