Sun Oct 9, 2005 5:42 PM BST
PARIS (
Reuters) - French police briefly evacuated tourists from the Eiffel Tower on Sunday following an anonymous bomb threat that proved to be a false alarm, police said.
A spokeswoman for Paris police said the famous landmark was evacuated around 1330 GMT after a caller said there was a bomb. The public was allowed back some 90 minutes later.
It was not immediately clear how many people had been on the 324-metre (1,063 ft) structure at the time of the alert.
Around six million people a year climb the Eiffel Tower, a symbol of the French capital that was built in 1889 for the International Exhibition of Paris commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution.
The tower weighs 10,100 tonnes and was the world's largest building until 1930.
