Bomb scare stops traffic near Dutch U.S. base

A major road and railway in the south of the Netherlands were closed off briefly on Wednesday after a bomb scare at a U.S. military base, Dutch officials said.

“It was a false alarm,” said a military police spokesman.

“We took precautions and stopped traffic on the motorway for one hour,” said Peter Tans, a spokesman for the local police. A major highway nearby connects Germany and Belgium through the southern part of the Netherlands.

Full article: Reuters, 30 August 2006