{"id":98916,"date":"2017-02-12T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T18:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=98916"},"modified":"2017-02-12T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T18:37:40","slug":"hamburg-airport-briefly-closed-dozens-injured-irritant-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/hamburg-airport-briefly-closed-dozens-injured-irritant-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg Airport briefly closed after dozens injured by irritant gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN &#8211; German officials on Sunday evacuated hundreds of people from Hamburg Airport and briefly closed the facility after dozens of passengers reported eye irritation and breathing difficulties in a security luggage-check area.<\/p>\n<p>Maik Lewerenz, spokesman for the Hamburg federal police, said that about 68 people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Rene Sch\u00f6nhardt, spokesman for the Hamburg police, said there was &#8220;no evidence&#8221; that the incident was a terrorist attack. Instead, he said, the injuries most likely stemmed from a cartridge containing pepper spray that was found in the bin provided for travelers to dispose of liquids before boarding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing else has been found,&#8221; Sch\u00f6nhardt said. &#8220;The fire department didn&#8217;t detect any dangerous substances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Werner N\u00f6lken, spokesman for the Hamburg fire department said, &#8220;We are not assuming a terrorist attack.&#8221; The current assumption, he said, is that &#8220;some clown, for whatever reason&#8221; released pepper spray into an air-conditioning vent, causing the substance to spread.<\/p>\n<p>The cartridge found in the bin was only the size of a lipstick, he said, so it wouldn&#8217;t have been possible to injure so many people without the air-conditioning system diffusing the gas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98917\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98917\" src=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/l7j62XcM.jpg\" alt=\"(AFP Photo\/Axel HEIMKEN)\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/l7j62XcM.jpg 600w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/l7j62XcM-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AFP Photo\/Axel HEIMKEN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Passengers began complaining about a bad smell and irritated eyes around 11 a.m., and many were coughing. Flights were halted, and by 12.30 p.m. all the airport terminals had been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Airport officials said flights resumed by about 2 p.m., according to the Associated Press, and all terminals have been reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Although authorities were quick to rule out a terrorist agenda, the incident shows how easy it is to disrupt everyday life at a time of rising fear of such attacks in Germany. The country has been on edge since the Dec. 19 attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that left 12 people dead and dozens injured.<\/p>\n<p><em>(c) 2017, The Washington Post \u00b7 <span class=\"ng-binding ng-scope\">Stephanie Kirchner<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN &#8211; German officials on Sunday evacuated hundreds of people from Hamburg Airport and briefly closed the facility after dozens of passengers reported eye irritation and breathing difficulties in a security luggage-check area. Maik Lewerenz, spokesman for the Hamburg federal police, said that about 68 people were injured. Rene Sch\u00f6nhardt, spokesman for the Hamburg police, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":98917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hamburg Airport briefly closed after dozens injured by irritant gas - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/hamburg-airport-briefly-closed-dozens-injured-irritant-gas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hamburg Airport briefly closed after dozens injured by irritant gas - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BERLIN &#8211; German officials on Sunday evacuated hundreds of people from Hamburg Airport and briefly closed the facility after dozens of passengers reported eye irritation and breathing difficulties in a security luggage-check area. 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