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Denmark airport reopens after bomb threat, man arrested

Denmark's second largest airport reopened late Saturday after a man was arrested in connection with a bomb threat that forced its evacuation, police said.

Published: 21 April 2024 08:27 CEST
Denmark airport reopens after bomb threat, man arrested
Police tape outside terminal 3 at Kastrup airport in Copenhagen in 2015. Photo: Jonathan NACKSTRAND/AFP.

During the search in Billund airport in central Denmark, police arrested a man in his thirties and removed an object “likely to contain explosives”.

Chemical tests will be carried out for confirmation.

Danish police arrested the man after he “himself informed the police at the airport that the object he had dropped off contained explosives”, they said in a statement.

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The airport reopened at 7:00 pm (0500 GMT), but several flights were cancelled or delayed during its closure.

Police are also investigating whether there is a link between this bomb threat and the bombing of an ATM in Billund at around 4:00 am on Saturday.

Billund airport is near the headquarters of the manufacturer of Lego toy bricks and the Legoland theme park.

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Denmark’s DSB ticket app updated to allow multiple check-ins

The DSB app, which can be used to pay for rail and bus journeys across Denmark, has been updated so that users can use it to pay for accompanying passengers.

Published: 18 September 2024 15:41 CEST
Denmark’s DSB ticket app updated to allow multiple check-ins

Denmark’s national rail operator DSB has announced an update of its app to enable users to buy multiple tickets on the same journey.

DSB’s app, launched in April this year, allows you to pay for your journey and to check in on buses, local trains or metros. Over two and a half million journeys have since been paid for using the app, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

To use the DSB app, you can use the “check in” function in the app and then “check out” when your journey is complete. Your fare will then be paid using the payment card you link to the app.

This will now also apply when you add additional passengers before checking, using the new function.

If you forget to check out at the end of your trip, the DSB app does this automatically after 15 minutes, preventing you from paying an incorrect fare.

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“There has been great demand from customers to be able to travel together using the Check-in function. Now you only need one phone to take care of tickets for everyone on trains, buses, metro, and light rail,” DSB’s customer manager Charlotte Kjærulff said in the statement.

As much as 77 percent of online ticket purchases with DSB are now completed on the DSB app, according to the company.

“We are continuously developing our app with the aim of putting everything the customer needs for their journey in one place.We want it to be easy for customers to find the right ticket for their journey,” Kjærulff said.

Many transport users in Denmark still use a physical Rejsekort when checking in and out of public transportation. The Rejsekort is also being replaced by an app, which was fully rolled out earlier this month. The Rejsekort app is currently awaiting the results of a probe by the national data protection agency.

Both the DSB and Rejsekort apps are likely to increase convenience for many public transport passengers who have previously been reliant on having credit on the physical card and remembering to bring it with them.

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