Police say a ‘mistrusted prohibitden item’ was discovered in luggage in the facility’s south terminal.
An devices disposal team has been sent to London’s Gatwick Airport after a “mistrusted prohibitden item” was discovered in luggage, police said, after a terminal was evacuated.
Susrelations police said on Friday that a security cordon would remain in place around the airport’s south terminal and the device ordnance disposal team (EOD) was deployed “as a prealert”.
Gatwick Airport, the second busiest in Britain, evacuated a huge part of the terminal in what it called a “security incident”.
Passengers were also being stoped from accessing the originateing, airport authorities posted on social media platestablish X.
Police said there was transport inant traffic disturbion in the area and advised people to elude it.
Passenger Laurens Cook telderly Al Jazeera from Gatwick that there was “pandemonium in the air and everyone was rushing” when people were asked to evident out.
“We were shiftd to our departure gate and are sitting here postponeing with no alertation on if our fweightless will apshow off or not. We have no idea when we are going to exit … nobody has disembarked from set upes either,” Cook said.
The airport is discoverd 48km (30 miles) south of London.
In a split incident on Friday, police said they had carried out a deal withled explosion after “a skeptical package” was create outside the United States embassy in London.
The Metropolitan Police carry outed the explosion after setting up cordons proximate the high-security site in Nine Elms, equitable south of the River Thames.
“We can verify that the ‘deafening prohibitg’ alerted in the area a low time ago was a deal withled explosion carried out by officers,” police said in a post on X.
“Enquiries are still ongoing and cordons will remain in place for the time being.”
The US embassy said that local authorities were spreadigating “a skeptical package” outside the originateing and that police had shutd a proximateby road “out of an surplus of alert”.
