Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport Was Partly Evacuated

Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport was partly evacuated during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday amid an alert and a person was arrested, according to an airport spokesman quoted by the online edition of the French newspaper Le Figaro

The airport spokesman, Danielle Timmer, declared that the police evacuated part of the airport and the nearby Sheraton hotel, and arrested one person; he also said that the demining team present on the airport did not find anything dangerous in the luggage of the suspicious person.

No flight has been diverted and trains connecting the airport and the rest of the country circulated on schedule.

A helicopter flew over the area until the alert was lifted at around 01.30 local hours. On the televised images there could be seen armed border guards, patrolling around the airport.

Schiphol Airport, located on 16 kilometers from the capital city Amsterdam, is one of the busiest in Europe, with an annual throughout of 50 million passengers.