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Passengers evacuated after fire at Moscow airport

September 3, 2015

One of Moscow's main international airports was briefly evacuated Thursday morning, and around dozens of flights delayed, after a fire broke out in the baggage handling area.

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A fire broke out at Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport on Thursday. The airport was briefly evacuated and around 40 flights were delayed after the incident in the baggage handling area.


"At 8:10 a.m. (0510 UTC), the fire was total extinguished. There is no delay to arriving flights but there are (delays) to departing flights," an official from the Emergency Situations Ministry was quoted by Russian news agency TASS as saying.

Around 3,000 passengers were evacuated, according to authorities, after the fire spread to cover an area measuring about 20 square meters (220 square feet) at around 7:00 a.m. local time (0300 UTC).

"Once the smoke is under control and we have checked the building, the airport will be back operating as normal," the ministry official said, adding the passengers would "soon" be allowed back to their departure gates.

es/kms (AFP, dpa)