US airport ticketing area temporarily evacuated
US airport ticketing
Washington - MENA
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, FOX News reported on Saturday.
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.”
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.
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