After reports of a suspicious package at LaGuardia airport in New York was partially evacuated. Everyone is on high alert one day after the horrific Boston Marathon bombing.
Suspicious package at LaGuardia airport. Entire central terminal being evacuated. Reports say planes pulled away from building.
— Eye on Politics (@EyeOnPolitics) April 16, 2013
Twitter users were on the scene.
Passengers standing outside evacuated central terminal of NY LaGuardia Airport twitter.com/WahWhoWah/stat…; LIVE UPDATES on.rt.com/hu3yye
— RT (@RT_com) April 16, 2013
Not to start a panic but my terminal at laguardia just got evacuated twitter.com/RhinoB/status/…
— Laura Knetzger (@RhinoB) April 16, 2013
People tweeting about a terminal is being evacuated at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York now.@nycityalerts says bomb squad arriving
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) April 16, 2013
RT @einfal: Picture from friend at #LaGuardia Central Terminal evacuation tinyurl.com/chbed39 via @wahwhowah cc @mpoppel
— Michael van Poppel (@mpoppel) April 16, 2013
Crowd awaits from the parking garage walkway to re-enter LaGuardia Airport. twitter.com/MKimESPN/statu…
— Michael Kim (@MKimESPN) April 16, 2013
Reportedly, the all-clear has now been given and passengers are returning to the terminal.
#breaking news Laguardia was evacuated — suspicious package — now people going back in.See sthing say sthing @eyewitnessnyc @plipof7
— MichelleCharlesworth (@mcharlesworth7) April 16, 2013
Update: All-clear issued at LaGuardia Airport after suspicious package prompted terminal evac via @nbcnewyork bit.ly/15cWPZY
— Nadia Neophytou (@NadiaNeophytou) April 16, 2013
Terminal deemed ‘clear’ after being evacuated at LaGuardia Airport in New York bit.ly/Z0dsod twitter.com/myfoxal/status…
— FOX6 WBRC-TV (@myfoxal) April 16, 2013
RT @coriekupferberg Back inside but not moving. #LaGuardia twitter.com/CorieKupferber…
— Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) April 16, 2013
Evacuated a half an hour before the flight home. Back in line at La Guardia to go through security again.#funtimes twitter.com/Hebbsy/status/…
— Chris Hebb (@Hebbsy) April 16, 2013
Twitchy will continue to monitor this situation and update with further developments.
