According to the airlive.net website, all 151 passengers were evacuated and searched. A piece of luggage that could not be assigned to anybody on board was found during the inspection. A controlled explosion was then carried out for safety reasons. The police has reportedly arrested three passengers.

Easyjet's Airbus A319 departed from Ljubljana at 4.45 p.m. on Saturday and made an emergency landing in Cologne just after 6 p.m. The airport was closed for several hours for all traffic. According to unofficial information, one of the passengers had overheard the word 'bomb' being mentioned in a conversation between two other travellers sitting nearby and reported the incident to the crew. The pilots then decided to land at the nearest location, i.e. the Cologne Bonn Airport, concludes airlive.net.

B. R., MMC; translated by K. Z.