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Gibraltar closes border with Spain after finding suspicious package outside its airport

A line of cars queuing at the Gibraltar border, as the British overseas territory has imposed a second lockdown to slow soaring rate of coronavirus cases, just days after a landmark agreement was reached with Spain to ensure post-Brexit fluidity along its border. Picture date: January Sunday 3, 2021. Photo credit should read: Isabel Infantes

GIBRALTAR was today forced to close its border crossing with Spain after discovering a suspicious package near the territory’s airport.

The frontier, which connects La Linea de la Concepcion in Spain to the British Overseas Territory, was shut for almost two hours.

No one was allowed to cross the border from just after midday and until 1.45pm due to the suspcious item, reports Europa Sur.

At 2.08pm, police reported that the Royal Gibraltar Regiment assessed the package and found no explosives inside.

The force said that a cordon would remain in place in the terminal car park while investigations continued.

The Kingsway tunnel and the airfield runway were closed to traffic and pedestrians, although by 1.30pm the tunnel had opened to traffic in both directions.

At 1.45pm, the passage was reopened in both directions to pedestrians, bicycles and electric scooters.

The airport also reopened after being temporarily closed, but with a cordon in its car park while the Royal Gibraltar Regiment bomb squad continued its work.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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