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Heathrow Airport "pandemonium" after terminal was evacuated - followed by "crush"

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Holiday-goers have been left in chaos as Heathrow Airport suddenly closed one of their terminals.

The popular airport was left in a frenzy when terminal two was evacuated with no explanation as to why.

Many commuters were left furious and in fear of missing their flights-- including several England fans trying to make tomorrow's quarter final clash with Switzerland.

Mark Pusey, 44, was at the airport for his journey to Leipzig, Germany, but now fears he will miss his connecting flight from Frankfurt.

He said: "They shut the terminal and nobody will tell us why. "

"It is pandemonium in some of the terminals, people are running all over the place. "

"There is just a complete lack of information. Nobody has said anything, every time I ask staff a question they reply with 'I can't tell you'."

"It is chaos, lots of people are running around. There was one guy who was happy to lose his bag and try to make his flight than wait around and potentially miss it."

Heathrow said in a statement the incident has now been resolved, but opening the terminal seemed to cause even more chaos.

Mark added: "When they finally opened the terminal up the rush through, there was people getting crushed and stood on. "

"People were leaving their partners behind to get on escalators. "

"It was frantic and it just seemed like nobody was really in control or in charge. There were no announcements, nothing."

Although Mark's flight has currently only been delayed by 20 minutes, he now fears that he will miss his connecting flight on the other side.

A Heathrow spokesperson said: "This morning our teams worked with emergency services to respond to an incident in Terminal 2 which has now been resolved."

"We ask passengers to check with their airline if flying from Terminal 2, the rest of the airport is operating normally."

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