{"id":647923,"date":"2026-06-19T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647923\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:38:08","slug":"edinburgh-airport-evacuated-over-suspicious-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647923\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh airport evacuated over suspicious package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passengers faced disruption from the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An Edinburgh Airport Facebook post said: &#8220;Due to reports of a potentially suspicious item, the airport has been evacuated while specialist teams investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Updates will be issued when available. Passengers should check with their airline for the latest information on their flight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SRFS) said they were alerted at 20:44 to assist the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three appliances and three &#8220;specialist resources&#8221; were attending the scene late on Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers faced disruption from the closure. An Edinburgh Airport Facebook post said: &#8220;Due to reports of a potentially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-647923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}