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BOSTON -- A cargo area at Logan International Airport was evacuated as a precaution Tuesday afternoon after a police dog detected something suspicious in two duffel bags headed for Nigeria, but the area was declared safe after the bags were determined to contain bedding material, Massachusetts State Police said.
Police set up a secure perimeter around the Delta Airlines cargo area located on Harborside Drive, which is about a mile away from any passenger areas at the airport.
Massport officials said the evacuation was triggered by a routine Transportation Security Administration K-9 unit that picked up a scent on a pallet at the cargo area during a security sweep.
"Out of an abundance of caution and per standard protocol, the building was evacuated, a perimeter was established and local (Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams) and the Massachusetts State Police among other federal, state and local agencies responded," the TSA said in a statement.
Investigators were called in to examine two duffel bags that had Nigerian addresses, according to. The bags were sent through X-rays and the threat level was determined to be low after they were found to contain bedding.
"After the initial hit of the dog, the state police went in with their diagnostic equipment, that being the X-ray, and that revealed that there were no apparent electrical components or metallic components within the bags," Massport Fire Chief Robert Donahue said.
The bags will be returned to the sender, state police said.
"They know what it is, they know who shipped it. They talked to the shipper. We are not worrying about anything right now," Massport spokesman Phil Orlandella said.
No injuries were reported.
Passenger flights in and out of Logan were not affected.
"We did hear about the scare, and, well, they said it was low level. So, hopefully it is nothing," one passenger said.
Last month, federal officials said terrorists attempted to send bombs to the U.S. by hiding explosives in ink cartridges and shipping them on planes as cargo.
An al-Qaida-linked online magazine recently said attempts to bomb the two U.S.-bound cargo planes on Oct. 29 was part of a larger terrorist strategy to launch small-scale attacks that were cheap and easy to carry out, thereby causing problems for the American economy by striking at the U.S. freight industry.
