Plane searched in Venezuela after bomb warning

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities were searching a trans-Atlantic airliner on Sunday after receiving a call warning that a bomb was aboard the plane that had been due to fly to Madrid from Caracas, an airline official said.

Passengers had deplaned and their luggage was being checked, Xiomara Marin, a manager with the privately owned Spanish airliner Air Europa, told Venezuela television station Globovision.

She did not rule out that the incident at Venezuela's main airport outside the capital Caracas could turn out to be a false alarm.

(Reporting by Saul Hudson and Enrique Andres Pretel; Writing by Saul Hudson)