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Milan Malpensa airport: Man starts fire and smashes screens with hammer
- A passenger ignited a fire at the check-in desk of Milan Malpensa Airport, causing chaos.
- Armed with a hammer, the man damaged check-in desks and information screens during his rampage.
- Terrified passengers evacuated the terminal due to smoke from the fire.
- An employee who intervened sustained injuries and was treated by medical services, as reported by Varese News.
32 Articles
32 Articles
The terminal at Italy's Malpensa airport was evacuated on Wednesday morning after a man deliberately set fire to a check-in hall. He doused a flammable liquid on a partition and began smashing it with a hammer. He then attacked several security guards. There were no injuries in the incident.
The man was arrested - They are looking for the motives for his actions - There were no injuries from the incident
The fire sparked by the man causes panic on other passengers. Security forces can overwhelm him.
In the morning of Wednesday, August 20, a man gave in excandescence to terminal 1 of the airport of Malpensa, setting fire to a garbage basket. The flames and the smoke in front of Gate 13 caused the panic among the travelers. The man, a 28-year-old native of Mali, also began to split the check-in monitors with a hammer and was then blocked by the security workers of Sea, the company that manages the airport, and stopped by Polaria. On the spot …
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