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Wife's bomb hoax caused security scare at Geneva airport

A woman who wanted to stop her husband boarding a plane at Geneva has admitted making a false bomb threat, prosecutors said on Wednesday, after hours of tightened security that caused traffic chaos around the airport on the French-Swiss border. Swiss police officers conduct checks on passengers at the entrance of the Cointrin airport in Geneva, Switzerland. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

GENEVA: A woman who wanted to stop her husband boarding a plane at Geneva has admitted making a false bomb threat, prosecutors said on Wednesday, after hours of tightened security that caused traffic chaos around the airport on the French-Swiss border.

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