.Over 1,000 evacuated from New York Kennedy airport staying in heat.

NEW YORK, July 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Over 1,000 people, who were evacuated
from the first terminal of the New York Kennedy International Airport have
been staying in the 40-degree heat for more than two hours. Many
foreigners, including Russians, are among the evacuated people.
People are staying at a parking in front of the airport terminal, many
children are among passengers of various flights, a passenger told
Itar-Tass.
The police reported that the airport security service received an
anonymous call about a bomb planted at the airport. Airport security
officers have found a suspicious abandoned bag. Policemen have examined a
suspicious bag, but no bomb was found in it, the New York police reported.
From the first terminal flights of various air companies are made,
including Russia's Aeroflot flights. The Aeroflot airliner was to fly to
Moscow at 7.05 pm local time (3.05 am Moscow time). "Our flight, which has
268 passengers and 25 crewmen, is delayed," an Aeroflot source said. "As
soon as the situation is settled the airliner will fly to Moscow," he
added.
"During the registration for the Aeroflot SU 316 flight all people
staying in the terminal were asked to leave the airport building, cross
the road to a nearby parking and to move to another terminal," a passenger
of the Russian air company told Itar-Tass earlier.
Currently, the airplanes, which were to arrive in the first terminal,
are redirected to neighboring airports. Other airport terminals cannot
receive these flights due to a high load, a representative of the major
New York air harbour said.
The passengers, representatives of the air companies and terminal
employees are expected to be permitted to come back to the terminal soon.

.Bomb threat at Kennedy airport false.
(updates)

NEW YORK, July 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Passengers and employees of the first
terminal of the New York Kennedy airport were permitted to return in the
airport building. A bomb threat call was false, the airport security
service reported on Sunday evening. The bomb was not found.
Passengers and airport employees were evacuated at about 6 pm local
time (2 am Moscow time on Monday). Over 1,000 people from various
countries, including many children, have spent more than 2,5 hours in the
street amid the 40-degree heat.
An Aeroflot airliner was to take off at 7.05 pm local time (3.05 am
Moscow time), "but now the airplane will fly not earlier that 10 pm local
time (6 am Moscow time)," a representative of the Russian air company
Aeroflot told Itar-Tass. "The airplane is ready for a flight, but not all
passengers passed the flight registration and the passport controls," the
Aeroflot official said. "The airliner will carry 268 passengers and 25
crewmen," he said.
This weekend the police and all security services are on high alert
over the U.S. national holiday, Independence Day, which was celebrated on
Sunday. At the holidays quite many anonymous threat calls are coming, and
the police take them seriously.
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