Fire scare at London Gatwick Airport, Nigerians, other passengers stranded
Air travellers, officials, workers and others have found themselves our of the London Gatwick Airport over fire scare at the airport.
Theeditorial.ng gathered the around 6.40am on Friday (today), police and other law enforcement agencies, including the fire department entered the the airport terminal and urged people to move onto the premises.
Sources told theeditorial.ng that as the security officials were ushering passengers and other people in the buildings out there was also fire and announcements.
From 6.40am, the passengers loitered outside the airport building until they were summoned inside around 7.10am.
It was gathered that natives, Nigerians, other Africans were among the passengers.
Some of the passengers tole theeditorial.ng that the fire was discovered and put out.
- Gatwick Airport is located near Crawley, West Sussex, England, 29.5 miles (47.5 km) south of Central London. In 2022, Gatwick was the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the UK, after Heathrow Airport, and was the 8th-busiest in Europe by total passenger traffic.