No explosives found after Eta airport threat

A threat of attack from the armed Basque separatist group Eta forced the closure of the airport in the northeastern Spanish city of Zaragoza today, authorities said.

A threat of attack from the armed Basque separatist group Eta forced the closure of the airport in the northeastern Spanish city of Zaragoza today, authorities said.

Police searched the building for four hours but found no explosives, and the airport reopened soon after, said an Interior Ministry official in Zaragoza, some 185 miles northeast of Madrid.

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