2 Arrested in Chile Over Bomb Threats That Caused Flight Chaos

Passengers wait for check-in for their flights at the departures area of Latam airlines inside the international airport in Santiago, Chile Aug. 16, 2018. Reuters/Rodrigo Garrido

Chilean police arrested two men over bomb threats that grounded nine commercial airplanes in Chile, Peru, and Argentina on Thursday.

A specialist organized crime unit arrested one, 29-year-old Chilean man in the northern city of Antofagasta overnight after using cellphone triangulation to locate him, police said.