‘Threat of Attack': 6 French Airports evacuated after receiving threat emails of attack
‘Threat of Attack': After receiving receiving threat emails of attack, six France Airports have been evacuated on Wednesday.
The evacuations has been done at Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse and Beauvais airport near Paris .
France is on the highest state alert and has been receiving bomb threats since Hamas deadly attack on Israel on October 7.
A DGAC aviation representative verified only evacuations due to bomb alerts in Lille, Lyon, Toulouse, and Beauvais and was unable to provide further details immediately.
A post on Nice airport's X (formerly Twitter) account said that "following an abandoned baggage item... a security perimeter was set up to allow the usual checks".
"The situation has now returned to normal," it added.
Airport authorities at Lyon's Bron airport also said that the all-clear had been given.
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- With inputs from agencies