{"id":15283,"date":"2019-09-23T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15283"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T10:18:12","slug":"manchester-airport-train-station-evacuated-over-suspicious-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/manchester-airport-train-station-evacuated-over-suspicious-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Airport train station evacuated over &#8216;suspicious package&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Manchester Airport train station was evacuated and a man was detained after reports of a suspicious package. Greater Manchester Police said bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion and a barrier has been put in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Police rushed to the airport&#8217;s train station in reports of a suspicious package, the airport \u00a0interchange and surrounding offices were evacuated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All trains, trams and buses were suspended but have now been allowed to work again and the stations are reopened.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u26a0\ufe0fFollowing the police dealing with an incident at<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManchesterAirport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ManchesterAirport<\/a>, the station has reopened. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Trains to \/ from Manchester Airport may be delayed by up to 30 minutes or cancelled while services return to normal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Disruption is expected to continue until approximately 12:30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 National Rail (@nationalrailenq) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nationalrailenq\/status\/1176073971562876928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All flights were unaffected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Police confirm that controlled explosion took place at Manchester airport. Cordon still in place, traffic pretty gridlocked on roads leading to airport <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/47MoMQbqpE\">pic.twitter.com\/47MoMQbqpE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maya Wolfe-Robinson (@mwolferobinson)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mwolferobinson\/status\/1176059738657828864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Airport train station was evacuated and a man was detained after reports of a suspicious package. Greater Manchester Police said bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion and a barrier has been put in place. Police rushed to the airport&#8217;s train station in reports of a suspicious package, the airport \u00a0interchange and surrounding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":15285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1702],"class_list":["post-15283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-manchester-aiport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15286,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283\/revisions\/15286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}