A passenger plane was evacuated at Switzerland's Geneva airport on today and a man was been arrested after saying there was a a bomb on board, the Geneva prosecutor's office said in a statement.

An Aeroflot statement said it was Aeroflot flight 2381 to Moscow and passengers would be transferred to other aircraft for the journey. A Geneva prosecutor's spokesman said the arrested man was Russian and there were 115 people on board.

The prosecutor's office said a police bomb disposal team was checking the aircraft, which an airport spokesman said was still standing empty on the tarmac.

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