Swedish Airport Evacuated After Suspicious Powder Found
An airport near Stockholm was evacuated on Sunday after staff found suspicious powder in a bag that had been checked in for a flight, officials said.
All departing flights were suspended said Joakim Lindholm, Operations Manager at Skavsta Airport, Sweden’s fifth largest, which mainly handles low-cost airlines.
A bomb squad arrived at the airport about 100 km (60 miles) south of Stockholm, Lindholm told Reuters.
Police Spokesperson Anette Wilhelmsson told Svenska Dagbladet newspaper that a suspicious power had been found.
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