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Stuttgart Airport has suspended ALL flights over an 'imminent bomb threat' - after two passengers were arrested and a 'suspect package' found on a plane, according to German media.

A passenger is reported to have expressed concerns over a conversation he overheard, police said.

According to Welt, two or three people have been questioned - amid confused reports, yet to be confirmed, that there was an argument during which a threat was made.

They are understood to have all been due to fly on a plane carrying 180 people at midday.

The flight itself, heading to Varna, was evacuated and searched by bomb disposal and police dogs - and is thought likely to take off later today. It is not clear which airline was involved.

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A federal police spokesman said: "During the routine departure check-out, a passenger told us that another passenger had threatened a bombing operation on the aircraft.

"In view of the global political situation and the way in which the passenger met us, we had to take the threat seriously."

All take-offs and landings were temporarily suspended but operations resumed about two hours later.