{"id":51597,"date":"2025-11-18T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51597\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:44:18","slug":"us-airport-terminal-evacuated-after-man-said-he-had-a-bomb-in-his-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51597\/","title":{"rendered":"US airport terminal evacuated after man said he had a bomb in his bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major US airport terminal has been evacuated after a man claimed he had a bomb in his bag. <\/p>\n

Officers detained a man who claimed he had a bomb in his bag at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida. <\/p>\n

Airport officials said in a statement that the incident is impacting access to pre-security public areas of the arrival and departure levels of the terminal.<\/p>\n

A spokesman told the Miami Herald said: “We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this ongoing investigation.”<\/p>\n

Deputies ordered the evacuation of the lower and upper levels of Terminal 4 while did a security sweep, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said around noon.<\/p>\n

An airport spokesman said: “An ongoing security-related investigation is impacting access to pre-security public areas of the arrivals and departures levels of Terminal 4 only. <\/p>\n

“Law enforcement personnel are diverting airport guests to unaffected terminal areas. <\/p>\n

“We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

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Emergency services are in attendance at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida (file pic)<\/p>\n

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“This is a developing situation and updates will be posted when available.”<\/p>\n

Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office spokeswoman Claudinne Caro said: “The lower level and upper levels of Terminal 4 (were) being evacuated while deputies conduct a security sweep.<\/p>\n

“At this time, this incident has not affected airport operations. <\/p>\n

“The investigation is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport said that airline operations remain unaffected by the incident today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major US airport terminal has been evacuated after a man claimed he had a bomb in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,115,628,4278],"class_list":["post-51597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-news","tag-us","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}