Thousands flee after airport blast
Thousands of people have been evacuated from a Dutch airport after an explosion and large fire erupted.
The incident happened in the passenger terminal at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Dutch television reported.
Nobody is thought to have been hurt, but ambulances rushed to the airport, one of Europe's busiest.
The explosion apparently occurred in an oven of the Burger King restaurant on the main shopping plaza and spread to the roof of the terminal and other shops.
A television reporter said he saw smoke and flames in the terminal and the area erupted in pandemonium.
On an average day, tens of thousands of passengers normally pass through the mall, which has dozens of up-market shops. The airport recorded traffic of nearly 40 million passengers last year.
Schiphol is the home airport of Royal Dutch KLM airline and is a popular transit point for travellers making connections from Europe to points around the world.
In January, an explosion occurred in a restaurant toilet, leaving three people injured. That incident was originally blamed on youths from the Maluku islands in Indonesia, a former Dutch colony, but a homeless man later admitted setting off the explosion. He had no political motive.
