Rome's Ciampino airport reopened after bomb scare

Rome’s second-largest airport, Ciampino, was closed for about one hour today for a bomb threat, and reopened after a search did not find any explosive devices, airport officials said.

Ciampino airport, which is used mainly by low-cost airlines, was closed to air traffic shortly before 9am local time after officials received an anonymous phone call saying that an explosive device was on a cargo plane, police at the airport said.

The bomb scare forced officials to divert flights to Rome’s main Leonardo da Vinci airport

Bomb experts searched a cargo plane, but did not find anything suspicious, said officials at the company operating Rome airports.

Ciampino, which was not evacuated during the bomb scare, is an airport in southern Rome that has seen its traffic increase in recent years with budget airlines.