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| Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport ticketing area temporarily evacuated after bag tests positive for explosives |
| 2015-08-01 |
| [FOXNEWS] A Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport ticketing area reopened Saturday after being evacuated for about two hours when an unattended bag tested positive for explosives. Officials ordered the brief evacuation of the Terminal 1 ticketing area around 12:30 p.m. "A portion of T1 ticketing evacuated. Airlines affected: American, US Airways, Spirit, Frontier, United. Contact airline for flight status," the airport's Metropolitan Airport Commission said on Twitter A short time later the airport reported "an unattended bag tested positive for explosives near the United ticket counter." KSTP-TV said the bag was swabbed for explosives and registered positive in a preliminary test. Airport Police was investigating with the Bloomington Police Department Bomb Squad. The entire north end of the ticketing area was closed. MAC said the airport returned to normal activity around 2:30 p.m. "Scene has been cleared and all areas reopened. Airport back to normal operations," the airport tweeted. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Do they also screen for khat? Or is that legal in Minnesota now? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-08-01 21:28 |
| #1 Returning from Somalia or outbound? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-08-01 17:12 |