Bomb disposal team sent to London Gatwick airport after terminal evacuated

Police accidental a ‘suspected prohibited item’ was discovered successful luggage successful the facility’s southbound terminal.

An explosives disposal squad has been sent to London’s Gatwick Airport aft a “suspected prohibited item” was discovered successful luggage, constabulary said, aft a terminal was evacuated.

Sussex constabulary said connected Friday that a information cordon would stay successful spot astir the airport’s southbound terminal and the explosive ordnance disposal squad (EOD) was deployed “as a precaution”.

Gatwick Airport, the 2nd busiest successful Britain, evacuated a ample portion of the terminal successful what it called a “security incident”.

Passengers were besides being prevented from entering the building, airdrome authorities posted connected societal media level X.

Police said determination was important postulation disruption successful the country and advised radical to debar it.

Passenger Laurens Cook told Al Jazeera from Gatwick that determination was “pandemonium successful the aerial and everyone was rushing” erstwhile radical were asked to wide out.

“We were moved to our departure gross and are sitting present waiting with nary accusation connected if our formation volition instrumentality disconnected oregon not. We person nary thought erstwhile we are going to permission … cipher has disembarked from planes either,” Cook said.

The airdrome is located 48km (30 miles) southbound of London.

In a abstracted incidental connected Friday, constabulary said they had carried retired a controlled detonation aft “a suspicious package” was recovered extracurricular the United States embassy successful London.

The Metropolitan Police conducted the detonation aft mounting up cordons adjacent the high-security tract successful Nine Elms, conscionable southbound of the River Thames.

“We tin corroborate that the ‘loud bang’ reported successful the country a abbreviated clip agone was a controlled detonation carried retired by officers,” constabulary said successful a station connected X.

“Enquiries are inactive ongoing and cordons volition stay successful spot for the clip being.”

The US embassy said that section authorities were investigating “a suspicious package” extracurricular the gathering and that constabulary had closed a adjacent roadworthy “out of an abundance of caution”.

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