Copenhagen airport terminal evacuated over suspect bag

Danish law enforcement officials arrested two men at the Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen, after the airport was evacuated due to the suspects’ conversation about one of them having a bomb in his bag. “There were no bombs”, police wrote.

As of late October, more than 22.6 million people have so far this year traveled through the Copenhagen airport.

Copenhagen Airport is the closest big worldwide airport to southern Sweden and is located less than 15 minutes from Malmö by train, which normally calls at Terminal 3.

Meanwhile, Scandiavian Airlines (SAS) moved all its flight check-in to Terminal 2 to be able to continue to operate as normal during the evacuation, although delays were reported. “We had received no direct threats”, police spokesman Steen Hansen told AFP.

Danish police had only raised the nation’s threat level to the second highest possible hours before the incident.

Authorities cited the greater threat of a terrorist attack in the wake of events in Paris which left at least 129 people dead on Friday night.