PARIS, France - According to FOXNews.com France’s famous Eiffel Tower was evacuated of all
tourists and staff Friday after a bomb alert, according to police.
Reuters is reporting the 1,062-foot iron tower was evacuated around 2 p.m. (12:30 GMT) and has not reopened to tourists yet.
Built in 1889 and one of the world's most recognizable monuments, the Eiffel Tower sees about 7 million visitors a year and as many as 30,000 per day in the peak summer season.
It's regularly subject to bomb scares but these threats are usually quickly found to be hoaxes and only cause full evacuations a few times a year.
