Lourdes reopens after bomb threat
Thousands of people, many disabled or ailing, were evacuated today from the shrine at Lourdes in southern France after a bomb threat on the Catholic holy day of Assumption.
Some 30,000 pilgrims were at the site, whose spring water is reputed to have healing powers, when Lourdes police received an anonymous threat saying bombs would hit the site this afternoon, said the shrine’s chief spokesman Pierre Adias.
