Operations resume hours after bomb threat forces evacuation at Franco-Swiss airport

Paris, July 26 (IANS) The Franco-Swiss international airport of Basel-Mulhouse, situated in France, was evacuated Friday morning due to "security reasons," according to the airport authorities. However, air traffic resumed at midday after a thorough security check, Xinhua news agency reported."For security reasons, the terminal had to be evacuated and is currently closed. Further information will follow," the airport announced earlier in the day.BFMTV, a French news broadcast television and radio network, said that the evacuation was prompted by a bomb threat.The airport has since reopened, and flight operations are gradually returning to normal, as stated on the airport's website.This incident is part of a troubling pattern; the terminal faced multiple bomb threats at the end of last year, each resulting in evacuations, BFMTV noted.--IANSint/sd/svn

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