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Paris airport evacuated on suspected explosive

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-01-25 09:38

PARIS - Paris' Roissy Charles De Gaulle Airport was briefly evacuated on a report of suspected explosive, French police told Xinhua on Monday evening.

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A bomb disposal expert was called to the 1st terminal of the Roissy airport on the northern outskirts of Paris, where a deserted baggage was found and reckoned to be an explosive device, police at the scene said to Xinhua.

An unconfirmed source said earlier that the explosive device had been successfully defused by the expert.