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Bomb-alert at Montevideo airport after Annan arrived

Montevideo, Uruguay - An anonymous telephone call warned there was a bomb

Yesterday a false bomb-alert at the international airport of Carrasco, Montevideo (Uruguay) alarmed the security officers of the airport waiting for the important heads of State and the UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan, to take part to the XVI Iberoamerican Summit. An anonymous telephone call warned there was a bomb in the airports, so the Police evacuated all the airport just a few minutes after the...

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Rome, Italy, 11/03/2006 13:57
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