Brazil's Manaus Airport Shut for 4 Hours over Bomb Scare

The international airport in the northern Brazilian city of Manaus was closed for four hours Saturday following reports of a bomb aboard an incoming flight, a spokeswoman said.

"It has now reopened and is operating normally," a spokeswoman for Infraero, the federal agency that operates the country's main commercial airports, told Agence France Presse.

"Federal police investigated a report that a bomb had been placed aboard TAM airline flight 3540," she added, but no bomb was found.

The police bomb squad searched the Airbus 320 jetliner after it landed in Manaus with 162 passengers aboard.

Manaus is one of the 12 host cities for the World Cup, which kicks off in Sao Paulo June 12.