Christchurch airport is evacuated after a fire alarm. Photo: @xgo_de/Twitter
Christchurch airport is evacuated after a fire alarm. Photo: @xgo_de/Twitter
A false fire alarm sparked a mass evacuation from Christchurch Airport this afternoon.
Hundreds of people were ushered out of the terminals after a fire alarm was activated around 4pm.
Photographs from inside the airport building showed signs warning of a "suspected emergency", and telling travellers to "please prepare toevacuate".
Twitter user Lamia posted two photographs from the airport, one of the warning signs, and another of people standing outside after being evacuated from the terminal building.