{"id":51875,"date":"2025-11-18T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51875\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:12:10","slug":"panic-at-florida-airport-as-man-with-bomb-in-bag-sparks-evacuation-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51875\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic at Florida airport as man with &#8216;bomb in bag&#8217; sparks evacuation | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major international airport had to be evacuated on Tuesday evening after a man claimed to have a bomb in his bag. Officers at Fort Lauderdale-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/hollywood\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a> International Airport in Florida detained a man on Tuesday (November 18)<\/p>\n<p>The alleged incident affected access to pre-security public areas of the arrival and departure levels of Terminal 4 of the airport, officials said. An airport spokesman told the Miami Herald said: &#8220;We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this ongoing investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An airport spokesman also said: &#8220;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<p>&#8220;Law enforcement personnel are diverting airport guests to unaffected terminal areas. We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a developing situation and updates will be posted when available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities were compelled to act after a man claimed he was carrying a bomb in his bag. The incident prompted swift intervention, and the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office has since confirmed that the individual is now in custody and a bomb squad retrieved a bag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport updated passengers on the situation by posting on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>It read: &#8220;Travel Advisory No. 1: 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<p>&#8220;Law enforcement personnel are diverting airport guests to unaffected terminal areas. We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this ongoing investigation. This is a developing situation and updates will be posted when available.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major international airport had to be evacuated on Tuesday evening after a man claimed to have a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8812,32735,28,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-51875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-airports","tag-emergency-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51875","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=51875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}