Some travelers were forced to evacuate Boston’s Logan Airport on Easter Sunday after a potentially suspicious item was discovered inside a piece of luggage.
Massachusetts State Police said their bomb squad was examining the item that was located inside a piece of luggage around 5 p.m. Sunday.
Video posted to social media showed a long, crowded line of people exiting Terminal A. In the video, a Logan employee can be heard over the airport’s loud speaker telling everyone they must exit the secure checkpoint, including any employees or staff personnel, and be rescreened by TSA agents.
“You have to exit, this is mandatory,” the speaker says.
Another video posted on social media also shows a crowded sidewalk outside the terminal. State police said people were evacuated to the sidewalk.
A traveler who was inside Terminal A when law enforcement entered the airport told NBC10 Boston there was panic, with people running and leaving things behind. He even saw one man fall down.
Photos shared with NBC10 Boston by another traveler showed an empty terminal, with unattended baggage strewn about and line dividers knocked to the ground. Sheryl Ding said she took the pictures when she realized she wasn’t in imminent danger.
State police said at 5:30 p.m. that the suspicious item had been cleared and the terminal was reopened and check-in could resume.
It was not immediately clear how much of a delay this incident caused as people traveled on Easter Sunday but there were still visibly long lines at 6:30 p.m. Some travelers told NBC10 Boston they had been delayed over an hour.
No other information was immediately available.