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'Vibrating bag' prompts bomb scare at O'Hare
By Dan P. Blake
Tribune staff reporter
January 11, 2007, 11:15 AM CST
An unattended "vibrating bag" at O'Hare International Airport this morning caused a brief scare but was determined harmless.
The package was reported to police around 8 a.m., which prompted a response from the Chicago Police Department's Bomb and Arson Unit, a unit sergeant said.
Investigators cleared the immediate vicinity in Terminal 5, where international flights arrive and depart. Wendy Abrams, spokeswoman for the city's Department of Aviation, said the response to the "vibrating bag" did not affect operations at the airport.
"It was someone's property," Chicago police Officer Marcel Bright said. "There was nothing dangerous in it. Someone walked away and forgot it."
Authorities wouldn't say what was in the bag, but police did not have to destroy it, Bright said. The area was declared safe at 9 a.m.
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