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Baltimore airport evacuated after firearm scare

2 concourses closed down as precaution after weapon’s owner disappears

updated 11:41 a.m. ET Sept. 22, 2006

LINTHICUM, Md. - Security screeners discovered a firearm in a carry-on bag at Baltimore’s main airport Friday morning and two concourses were closed when its owner disappeared, authorities said.

Officials at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport held onto the carry-on but its owner continued through the checkpoint and disappeared, airport spokesman Jonathan Dean said.

“We simply were acting with all due precaution,” Dean said.

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Transportation Security Administration spokesman Christopher White said the bag belonged to a male passenger. He could not be located.

Concourses A and B, which serve Southwest Airlines, reopened after 90 minutes. Passengers were being required to go through screening again, Dean said.

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