New Zealand airport shut down over suspicious package

Specialist teams had been deployed to determine the nature of the package.

  • PUBLISHED: Sun 17 Mar 2019, 1:00 PM UPDATED: Sun 17 Mar 2019, 7:07 PM

New Zealand's police said on Sunday that the airport in the city of Dunedin had been closed following a report of a suspicious package on the airfield.

Police were at the scene and specialist teams had been deployed to determine the nature of the package, the police said in a statement.