Authorities say travellers at New York's Kennedy Airport cheering and loudly celebrating Usain Bolt's Olympic 100-metre victory may have prompted ultimately unfounded reports of gunshots there.
That's among the possibilities being probed by investigators trying to determine what led to a series of evacuations at the airport yesterday.
Investigators also are interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance footage to figure out what caused the chaos.
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An internal New York Police Department briefing document obtained by The Associated Press says patrons started to act "extremely disruptive" after watching the Olympics.