Nuuk airport evacuated after bomb threat, one person arrested, Greenland police say


COPENHAGEN, April ⁠21 (Reuters) - The ⁠airport in Greenland's capital ‌Nuuk was evacuated on Tuesday following a bomb ​threat and one ⁠person has ⁠been arrested in the ⁠case, ‌police said.

Asked by ⁠Reuters, they declined to say ​whether ‌they had found any ⁠dangerous ​object on the premises of the ⁠airport and made ​no further comment on the matter.

Such incidents ⁠are extremely rare in Greenland, a vast semi-autonomous Arctic island ​that ⁠is part of the ​kingdom of ‌Denmark.

(Reporting by ​Louise Rasmussen, editing by Gareth Jones)

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