More flights forced into emergency landings across Europe after bomb threats

Bomb threats forced more emergency flight landings across Europe on Thursday morning, the latest in a series of threats to planes in the continent.

Flights from London, Dublin, Madrid, Copenhagen and Helsinki, were among those that made emergency landings in France, Bulgaria and Belgium.

It comes after a series of bomb hoaxes earlier this week caused similar emergency landings, prompting serious concerns over the threat of information warfare in a week that has also seen cyber attacks on supermarket fridges and blood banks in Europe.

Aer Lingus flight EI402 from Dublin to Rome landed safely at Evreux airport, 100 km west of Paris, after being diverted as a security precaution, the Irish airline said in a statement.

Belgian media reported that an airliner forced to land at Brussels' Zaventem airport belonged to the Polish airline LOT.

A Finnair plane from Helsinki was safely escorted to its scheduled landing in Rome by the Italian air force, a source close to the matter said.