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By Brendan Cole
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A passenger plane from London had to make an unscheduled landing in Warsaw following a bomb threat, with at least three other similar incidents in Europe reported over the last day.
The bomb threat was announced on board a LOT Polish airlines flight from London Heathrow to Warsaw Chopin Airport on Tuesday.
The Boeing 737 MAX aircraft landed at Modlin airport in the Polish capital at 10.01 a.m. instead, Reuters reported, citing the airport.
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A second flight from Copenhagen to Chopin airport also faced a bomb threat but landed as normal on Tuesday, according to Danish media.
Meanwhile, a Ryanair plane which had departed from Manchester, England, made an emergency landing at Murcia airport in southern Spain, following another threat.
That flight had 121 people on board, including crew, according to Francisco Lucas, the Spanish government's delegate for the Murcia region who posted on X "security protocol activated due to a bomb threat on a flight from Manchester that has landed in Murcia."
"The 114 passengers and 7 crew members have disembarked and are undergoing a security check. At this time, the aircraft is being inspected."
The incidents come a day after a Wizz Air flight from London Luton to Sofia, Bulgaria made an emergency landing in Budapest after a bomb threat. The airline said afterwards that security checks found it was a false alarm.
On Tuesday, Bulgarian media reported another plane flying from Israel had landed in Sofia after being targeted by a bomb threat.
This is a developing story to be updated.
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