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| Milan Malpensa airport: Man starts fire and smashes screens with hammer | Milan Malpensa airport: Man starts fire and smashes screens with hammer |
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| A busy Italian airport as been partially evacuated after a man set fire to a check-in area. | A busy Italian airport as been partially evacuated after a man set fire to a check-in area. |
| Video footage posted on social media shows chaotic scenes inside Terminal 1 of Milan's Malpensa airport as a fire rages at one of the desks while a man attacks digital screens before being detained. | Video footage posted on social media shows chaotic scenes inside Terminal 1 of Milan's Malpensa airport as a fire rages at one of the desks while a man attacks digital screens before being detained. |
| A man has been arrested and the situation brought under control, according to the Lombardy Airports Association. | A man has been arrested and the situation brought under control, according to the Lombardy Airports Association. |
| However, it warned of potential delays and cancellations to departures at the bustling tourist hub popular with Brits. | However, it warned of potential delays and cancellations to departures at the bustling tourist hub popular with Brits. |
| No injuries have been reported so far, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. | |
| The incident happened around 11:00 local time (09:00 GMT), the paper said, with emergency services alerted to reports of an "agitated man" in the terminal. | |
| In video posted to social media, large flames can be seen rising from a check-in desk as a number of startled passengers look on. Cries of alarm are audible. | |
| The camera pans across to then show a man attacking overhead digital screens with what appears to be a blunt object. | |
| He is eventually challenged by several people, before being pinned to the ground. | |
| Pictures from the airport show huge queues of passengers waiting outside the terminal building as smoke fills the air inside. |