St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport evacuated over bomb threat

Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, is being evacuated over a bomb threat, the airport’s press service told RT. No new plane arrivals are being allowed and passengers in landed aircraft are remaining in their planes.

Pulkovo, servicing the northern ‘capital’, received a phone call about a bomb in the airport, press secretary Anna Fedoseeva told RT.

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Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, is being evacuated over a bomb threat, the airport's press service told RT. No new plane arrivals are being allowed and passengers in landed aircraft are remaining in their planes.

Pulkovo, servicing the northern 'capital', received a phone call about a bomb in the airport, press secretary Anna Fedoseeva told RT.

Meanwhile, the airport's virtual flight board on its website is showing no changes in the airport's operations.

Moscow's southern Domodedovo Airport received a similar call saying that an explosion is being prepared in Terminal B. However, there is no such terminal at Domodedovo.

The airport is operating and no evacuation will be carried out, the organization's press service told RT.

Police are trying to establish the identity of the callers.

In May, there were two anonymous calls regarding an alleged impending explosion at Pulkovo. Both times the airport was evacuated, but fortunately no explosions followed.

St. Petersburg's Pulkovo is the third busiest airport in Russia after Moscow's Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo Airports.

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