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A flight from Prague to Cyprus was among those targeted Friday in a fresh round of bomb threats across Europe that forced a plane bound for Rome to divert and prompted security checks from Lisbon to Copenhagen. No explosives were reported in the checks completed by the time of publication.
Hungary scrambled fighter jets to monitor the Cyprus-bound plane as it crossed Hungarian airspace, the country’s defense minister said. The Guardian identified it from Prague Airport’s departures board as Wizz Air flight W64600 to Larnaca, which landed safely at it destination. Prague Airport said nine flights had been targeted and that the airport remained open and operating.
Another Wizz Air flight, from Prague to Rome, landed instead in Venice, where passengers were taken off the plane and police carried out a search. The alert briefly halted air traffic at the airport. A TAROM flight from Prague to Bucharest also received a threat but landed at its intended destination.
In Lisbon, authorities carried out security checks involving a Ryanair aircraft. Danish police returned to Copenhagen Airport for a second straight day in response to threats and said flights were operating without disruption.
The latest alerts followed a series of hoaxes that affected more than two dozen flights earlier in the week. It remained unclear who was behind the threats.
