Miami airport terminal closes briefly due to ‘suspicious item’
Miami International Airport's Concourse E was closed briefly Sunday evening as Miami-Dade police and the TSA investigated a “suspicious item” found in the concourse, according to the airport.
By 10:30 p.m., the airport tweeted that the “security incident has been cleared. Operations now slowly returning to normal.”
Security incident has been cleared at Concourse E. Operations now slowly returning to normal.
— Miami Int'l Airport (@iflymia) March 27, 2017
The Concourse E checkpoint and surrounding area on the second floor were closed, including the outside curb. The closure caused a traffic backup outside.
It was not immediately clear what the suspicious item was.
Carli Teproff: 305-376-3587, @CTeproff
This story was originally published March 26, 2017 at 10:51 PM with the headline "Miami airport terminal closes briefly due to ‘suspicious item’."