Bulgaria's Sofia airport was temporarily evacuated and flights suspended for over an hour after a bomb threat which proved a hoax, police said. Authorities received the threat from an anonymous female caller but a bomb squad found nothing suspicious after checking the airport's terminals. "It turned out to be a false alarm. The airport was evacuated for about an hour. There are only three outgoing flights that were slightly delayed," a police spokeswoman said. The airport was operating normally now.

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