{"id":27571,"date":"2018-12-31T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27571"},"modified":"2018-12-31T20:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T20:22:49","slug":"amsterdam-schiphol-airport-partly-evacuated-over-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27571","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam Schiphol Airport partly evacuated over bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parts of Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport have been evacuated after a man in a departure hall claimed he had a bomb, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The alert on Monday evening saw a large number of security services, including fire engines and ambulances, arrive at the airport, which was partly shut for the public.<\/p>\n

Police said the suspect was arrested and regular service was resuming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Local TV station AT5 showed a picture of a man lying on the ground in departure hall 3 with security personnel standing nearby. Witnesses told AT5 that people in the hall were seen running from the scene.<\/p>\n

Dutch police were already on high alert on Monday after five men in the Netherlands and Germany were detained on charges of planning an attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The incident at Schiphol is not believed to be linked to the arrests.<\/p>\n

Four of the suspects were to remain in custody in the city of Rotterdam, police said on Monday, and the fifth – a Syrian man arrested in the German city of Mainz – was still in custody there.<\/p>\n

The five men were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of involvement in planning an attack.<\/p>\n

Police said the four suspects in Rotterdam were aged between 20 and 30 and came from non-Western countries. According to Dutch broadcaster NOS, one of the men had Syrian origins, and another had origins in Egypt. Six apartments were raided, but no weapons were found.<\/p>\n

The man arrested in Germany is a 26-year-old Syrian national registered as living in Rotterdam, according to Dutch authorities.<\/p>\n

Dutch police have asked Germany to extradite him.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Rotterdam police arrested another 24-year-old man on terrorism-related charges. However, the arrest was not related to those on Saturday, they said.<\/p>\n

Police declined to comment on the report from NOS.<\/p>\n

In June, police arrested two men in Rotterdam for allegedly plotting an attack on security forces. In September, a further seven men were arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of planning a larger attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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