A bomb scare at New York's JFK caused an entire terminal to be evacuated after a suspicious package was reportedly intercepted being boarded onto a plane on Sunday afternoon.
With tensions high following Monday's Boston marathon bombings, the airport's terminal 4 was cleared when a tube of toothpaste was discovered covered in wires in the baggage room of El-Al airlines.
The bomb squad were called and the Port Authority gave the all clear just after 5 p.m.
Terminal 4 has been evacuated at New York's JFK airport after a suspicious package was intercepted being boarded onto a plane
Authorities were alerted to the suspicious package at JFK at 4:10 p.m.
The airport's Terminal 4 Concourse B was evacuated.
The spokesman for the Port Authority said that an 'all clear' was given after an NYPD bomb squad investigation, and that the package had been a toothpaste tube with tape around it' and not wires.
Passengers and employees have been allowed back into the terminal.