Bomb Threat Disrupts Swiss Rail Traffic to Italy
All traffic through an Alpine rail tunnel linking Switzerland and Italy was halted Wednesday due to a bomb threat, police and the national Swiss rail service said.
"The bomb threat was received at 11:15 am (1015 GMT) and all the traffic has been interrupted" through the Simplon tunnel linking the Swiss town of Brig with Domodossola in Italy, said Marcus Rieder, a police spokesman in the southern Swiss canton of Valais.
"We are on site investigating," he told AFP, refusing to provide more details.
Swiss rail company SBB confirmed to Agence France Presse that all trains through the tunnel remained halted late Wednesday afternoon and that replacement buses had been set up.
Source: Agence France Presse
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