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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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| Watch: Check-in desk set alight in Milan Malpensa airport as man detained | |
| A busy Italian airport has been partially evacuated after a man set fire to a check-in area. | A busy Italian airport has 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. | 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. | 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. |
| BBC Verify has verified a two-minute video of the incident posted on social media, which shows a fire at a check-in desk as passengers flee the area. | BBC Verify has verified a two-minute video of the incident posted on social media, which shows a fire at a check-in desk as passengers flee the area. |
| A man then appears to use a hammer to bang on a wall with screens and a large advert near the fire, before another man approaches him shouting "get down". This man then hits him on the head with a fire extinguisher. | A man then appears to use a hammer to bang on a wall with screens and a large advert near the fire, before another man approaches him shouting "get down". This man then hits him on the head with a fire extinguisher. |
| Others surround the suspect, who is then pinned to the ground, calling for police, and one of them throws what appears to be a hammer away. | Others surround the suspect, who is then pinned to the ground, calling for police, and one of them throws what appears to be a hammer away. |
| It is as-yet unclear what may have incited the incident. | It is as-yet unclear what may have incited the incident. |
| Fabiola Gomes, who filmed the video, told the BBC she was at the airport to collect a relative before seeing "fire everywhere" and a "boy with a hammer" who was hitting the counter. | |
| She was "very scared", she added. | |
| Pictures from the airport show huge queues of passengers waiting outside the terminal building as smoke fills the air inside. | Pictures from the airport show huge queues of passengers waiting outside the terminal building as smoke fills the air inside. |
| Airport firefighters quickly tackled the blaze, but the heavy smoke meant the area had to be evacuated for "safety reasons", a spokesperson told Corriere della Sera, and said there had been no "significant disruption to air traffic". | Airport firefighters quickly tackled the blaze, but the heavy smoke meant the area had to be evacuated for "safety reasons", a spokesperson told Corriere della Sera, and said there had been no "significant disruption to air traffic". |