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Baton Rouge Metro Airport given "all clear"

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BATON ROUGE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - The Baton Rouge Metro Airport has been given the "all clear" after a bomb threat led to an evacuation Thursday afternoon.

Baton Rouge CBS affiliate WAFB is reporting that a threat was called in just before 5 P.M.

Airport Director Anthony Marino says the terminal building and a parking garage were evacuated and sealed off.

A bomb team investigated the airport's parking garage where a caller said a bomb was located.

FBI dogs and an EBRSO bomb robot worked to make sure the airport facility was safe.

The call came in as a bomb in the parking garage. There are three parking garages with a total of 1,200 cars in them.

The FBI is investigating this incident.

 

 

 

 

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