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Passenger Declan Clifford, 22, whose flight to Turkey was due to take off at 3.05pm, told Luton News he had been evacuated onto the taxiway.
He said: “We are being told nothing, we are being kept in the dark.
“I was in the departure lounge when an automated alert came over the PA system, everyone thought it was a fire drill at first.
“We were told to stay still, then to go to the fire escape before finally we were told to go to gate 125.
“We went out through the gate onto the taxiway and we’re now sitting outside waiting.
“They’ve brought us water and have also brought some of the buses over so we can sit in them.
“They also told us that there are no flights going out but we have seen three planes take off.”
Mr Clifford, from Cambridge, added that the situation ‘looked serious’.
He said: “One woman told me that she had seen two lads messing around refusing to move and they were arrested straight away.
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