Multiple flights to European airports targeted by bomb threats

A bomb alert forced a LOT flight from London's Heathrow to make an unscheduled landing at Warsaw-Modlin airport, prompting the airport to shut down. Operations resumed around midday after the passengers were evacuated and the plane underwent security checks. Nothing was found, airport spokesman Adam Szablowski told the French AFP news agency.

A SAS Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen also received a bomb threat before landing safely at Warsaw's central Chopin airport, where it underwent a security inspection. No explosives were found on either plane. It was not immediately clear whether the threats were linked.

Threats also hit Spain and Bulgaria

Also on Tuesday, a Ryanair flight from Manchester, UK, to Murcia, Spain, was hit by a bomb threat. It landed safely and underwent checks after all the passengers had disembarked. The Spanish government's delegate in the region of Murcia, Francisco Lucas, confirmed on X that police "ruled out the presence of explosives on the plane."

In the fourth such incident, a flight traveling from Israel landed in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, on Tuesday after a bomb threat was received via email. Counter-terrorism units were checking the plane for possible explosive devices, BTA news agency quoted Interior Minister Secretary General Lyubomir Nikolov as saying.

Pattern of false alarms

The four threats on Tuesday come after a WizzAir flight from London to Sofia was redirected to the Hungarian capital, Budapest, on Monday after it received a bomb threat mid-air. Similar incidents have been reported across different European airports in recent weeks, with alerts later turning out to be false.