Venezuela shuts airport on bomb threat-officials

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Venezuelan authorities closed an airport on the tourist Caribbean island of Margarita on Tuesday after a bomb threat to a Martinair plane that landed there with more than 100 passengers, officials said.

They said it was the second time in two days there had been a threat involving a plane at the airport in what they said was an attempt to damage the South American nation's tourism industry.

The passengers deplaned and authorities were scouring the plane that arrived from the Netherlands in case there was a bomb on board, the officials said.

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1. Someone one check lil boots' cell and whereabouts @ the time the call was made

[Hunky Dunky]

2. Have they gone to code yellow yet? n/t