Security tightened at Geneva airport after anonymous phone call, officials say

Swiss police officers conduct checks on passengers at the entrance of the Cointrin airport in Geneva, Switzerland July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Marina Depetris

GENEVA (Reuters) - A woman who wanted to stop her husband boarding a plane at Geneva has admitted making a false bomb threat, prosecutors said on Wednesday, after hours of tightened security that caused traffic chaos around the airport on the French-Swiss border.

"Yesterday in the evening, a woman called Swiss customs at Geneva airport. She said that today a person carrying a bomb would be in the French sector of the airport," the Geneva prosecutor's office said in a statement.