{{The Eiffel Tower was evacuated Saturday night after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat, police said.}}<\/p>\n
Nearly 1,400 people were sent away from the tourist attraction following a request from tower operators after the warning, a Paris police official said. <\/p>\n
Police then searched the monument with sniffer dogs, and set up a security perimeter.<\/p>\n
No explosives were found and the site was to be reopened, the official said on condition of anonymity because she wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n
French authorities have stepped up counterterrorism measures in recent weeks amid heightened concern about threats to France over its military campaign against al-Qaida-linked fighters in Mali which began more than two months ago.<\/p>\n
The tower is occasionally evacuated because of such warnings \u2014 at least once last year and twice in 2011. <\/p>\n
The 324-meter (1,063-foot) tower is one of the world’s top tourist attractions, with millions of visitors a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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