BREAKING NEWS: Evacuation at JFK's terminal 4 underway after 'suspicious package



A bomb scare at New York's JFK caused an entire terminal to be evacuated after a suspicious package was reportedly intercepted being boarded onto a plane on Sunday afternoon.


With tensions high following Monday's Boston marathon bombings, the airport's terminal 4 was cleared when a tube of toothpaste was discovered covered in wires in the baggage room of El-Al airlines.


The bomb squad were called and the Port Authority gave the all clear just after 5 p.m.




Terminal 4 has been evacuated at New York's JFK airport after a suspicious package was intercepted being boarded onto a plane

Authorities were alerted to the suspicious package at JFK at 4:10 p.m.


The airport's Terminal 4 Concourse B was evacuated.

The spokesman for the Port Authority said that an 'all clear' was given after an NYPD bomb squad investigation, and that the package had been a toothpaste tube with tape around it' and not wires.


Passengers and employees have been allowed back into the terminal.

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