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Four European flights targeted by bomb threats, no explosives found

Polish and Spanish officials said searches found no explosives after the flights landed.

The short version

  • Reports say bomb threats targeted four flights in Europe on Tuesday.[Business Insider]
  • Polish officials said two Warsaw-bound flights landed safely and no explosives were found.[The Guardian]
  • A Ryanair flight from Manchester made an emergency landing in Murcia, Spain, where officials said no explosives were found.[The Guardian]
  • Deutsche Welle, citing Italian media, reported two more threats against Ryanair flights bound for Rome, which are not independently confirmed.[Deutsche Welle]

Key facts

  • Four flights in Europe were targeted by bomb threats on Tuesday.[The Guardian · Business Insider]
  • Polish officials said two Warsaw-bound flights received bomb threats, and the planes landed safely with no explosives found.[The Guardian]
  • A Ryanair flight from Manchester made an emergency landing in Murcia, Spain, after a bomb threat.[The Guardian]
  • Francisco Lucas, Spain's government delegate in the region, said on X that no explosives were found on the Murcia flight.[The Guardian]
  • A fourth flight from Israel was forced to land in Sofia, Bulgaria.[The Guardian]
  • Airport spokesman Adam Szablowski told AFP that passengers on a LOT flight were evacuated and the plane was searched, and nothing was found.[The Guardian]
  • Deutsche Welle reported, citing Italian media, that two more bomb threats targeted Ryanair flights from Lisbon and Dublin to Rome's Fiumicino airport.[Deutsche Welle]

What remains uncertain

  • The Rome-bound Ryanair threats rest on Italian media reporting as cited by Deutsche Welle and are not independently confirmed in the reporting reviewed.[Deutsche Welle]

Sources

Outlet counts describe coverage, not independent confirmation. Reports may share a wire service or original source.