Brussels: Bomb alerts reported on two flights heading to Belgian airport

Fears: The airport affected is Brussels Zaventem, which was targeted by terrorists earlier this year
EPA
Sebastian Mann10 August 2016

Two flights have landed safely after bomb alerts were reported on board planes bound for Brussels, Belgian media reports.

Fears were radio-ed to the ground shortly before 7pm.

Belgian prosecutors launched an investigation but concluded there was no concrete threat, said broadcaster RTBF.

One of the flights touched down at Brussels Zaventem airport, the site of an Islamic State terrorist atrocity earlier this year.

The other landed in Toulouse, France, RTBF said.

Belgium has been on high alert since three co-ordinated terror strikes plotted by Islamic State claimed the lives of 32 people in Brussels on March 22 this year.

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