More than 800 people were evacuated from an airport in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg following a hoax bomb threat in the early hours of Monday morning, a news report said.
An unidentified caller phoned in the threat to the hotline of Yekaterinburg's Koltsovo Airport, but no bomb has been found, the region's transport police said in a statement, Interfax reported.
The airport resumed its normal operations within two hours, the report said.
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