Minneapolis airport evacuated; bomb squad called in

Posted Apr 27, 2012 07:55:59 AM.

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MINNEAPOLIS – St. Paul Airport is being evacuated according to CNN.

The evacuation was ordered after security screeners got a hit on a piece of luggage that was passing through a CTX machine that detects explosives.

All flights at the airport’s terminal two have been cancelled and all roads into the terminal have been closed.

The bomb squad has been called in.

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