The BBC is reporting:
Unconfirmed reports of gunshots, later described by police as just "loud noises", have sparked evacuations at Los Angeles airport.
People fled the airport on Sunday night amid the shooting reports, with scenes of abandoned luggage on pavements.
Traffic to the terminal was halted and no flights were allowed to land, but operations have now resumed.
LA police tweeted that no shots had been fired and there were no injuries. They are investigating the noises.
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The L.A. Times says there are unconfirmed reports of shots fired in three terminals at the L.A. airport.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airport-shooter-20160828-snap-story.html#nt=oft12aH-1li3
Heavy.com reports
no confirmation of shooting can be verified
(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Monday August 29 2016, @03:10PM
If it is a non-story, why did so many people panic? If they didn't know what was happening, how did they decide which way to go? The police should have been calming the situation rather than having a lock-down and diverting flights, shouldn't they?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @07:18PM
If there was a story here, it was to be found in Heavy.com's item #5:
A similar episode occurred in the airport in NYC a short time back.
(Multiple ACs mention this below.)
My suggested dept. line easily-spooked USAians points to a big issue here.
The police should have been calming the situation
Yup.
A tactic of TPTB, however, is to capitalize on panic and use that to embed political control even more deeply.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste."
donkeyhotay et al. riffed a bit on this below.
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