LONDON, February 10 (RIA Novosti) - Hundreds of oil workers are being evacuated by helicopter from an oil rig in the North Sea following a bomb alert, the British television channel Sky News said on Sunday.
Sky News said an unidentified person called the police and said that a bomb had been planted on an oil rig located more than 100 miles northwest of Aberdeen.
The operation to evacuate the oil rig personnel is involving helicopters of the Royal Air Force due to security threat, a spokesman for the U.K. Defense Ministry said.
According to Sky News, about 500 oil workers are being evacuated.
