STOCKHOLM: Police partly evacuated Sweden’s second biggest airport on Tuesday because of a suspect package found after armed robbers made off with valuable goods being unloaded from a plane.

The robbers struck as the unspecified cargo was being transferred from an SAS plane to a waiting security van at Landvetter airport, near the city of Gothenburg.

Hans Lippens, heading the investigation, told Swedish radio the robbers used their vehicle to ram a gate and get onto the tarmac and left a suspicious bag behind when they escaped.

Spokesman Bertil Ternert said an SAS flight from London was robbed, but neither he nor police gave details of what was stolen. Police originally said a foreign exchange bureau at the airport had been robbed.—Reuters