French Police Detain Woman After Bomb Threat at Dunkirk Hospital

French police have detained a woman at a hospital in Dunkirk after she made a bomb threat and sparked a security scare, reported Reuters. 

Police said in a statement that the woman made the threat after entering the hospital's emergency care unit.

Hospital workers alerted the police, who sealed off the area and deployed a bomb-disposal team.

"The person is under police control," the statement said.

Regional newspaper La Voix du Nord had reported that the woman was threatening to detonate a bomb.