Several flights headed for Durban International Airport were diverted on Friday because of a bomb scare, the Airports Company South Africa said.
Spokesperson Colin Naidoo said the police and bomb squad were alerted after an anonymous caller claimed there was a bomb at the airport.
”Police and bomb squad members did a thorough sweep of the airport and the aircraft … nothing was found,” he said.
Naidoo said some flights were diverted and others delayed.
”The airport is operational because it was just a scare … but we take these kind of phone calls very seriously.” — Sapa