US: Atlanta airport evacuated!!

US authorities in Atlanta, Georgia, have temporarily evacuated the city’s international airport over a ‘false’ alarm. Passengers were ordered out of public areas of the domestic terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Wednesday over a suspicious package. The site, however, was quickly cleared and operations resumed, airport officials said. Parts of the Denver airport were also evacuated on Tuesday following the deadly bomb attack in Brussels, Belgium. Authorities tightened security at US airports after the Tuesday incidents in Europe, where some Americans went missing in Brussels attacks. 

Officials said about a dozen US citizens including three Mormon missionaries, a US Air Force airman, and four members of his family, were also injured there. Among those missing were US government personnel, a State Department spokesman told reporters in Washington. "We still have not accounted for every official US government employee or their family members on the ground," said the spokesman, Mark Toner. "Partly that reflects the size of the mission or three missions: there's a bilateral mission, there's a mission to the EU, as well as a mission to NATO."

Early on Tuesday, three coordinated nail bombings rocked EU’s de facto capital, leaving at least 34 people dead and many more wounded. Two of the explosions ripped through the international departure hall of the airport in Zaventem, near the American Airlines check-in desk and another near a coffee shop. An hour after the airport bombings, another bomb went off at Maelbeek metro station, 10 kilometers away.