PARIS, Nov 5 — An Airbus A320 flying from Dublin to Rome was diverted to France's Evreux airbase following a bomb threat, the latest in a series of threats targeting flights in Europe, the office of French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Thursday.

Source: Reuters

"Flight EI402 from Dublin to Rome diverted to Normandy this morning as a security precaution," Irish carrier Aer Lingus said in a statement, adding that the plane had landed safely, the Associated Press reported.

Source: Associated Press

A bomb squad was in place at the Evreux-Fauville Air and Space Force base and the 151 passengers and six crew aboard the flight had been moved to a safe place, the prime minister's office said later, according to AP.

Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed the Aer Lingus aircraft cruising normally at 37,000 feet just west of Paris, just over an hour into its journey, before it started descending, made a series of loops and landed at Evreux-Fauville Air Base, AP reported. Reuters said the aircraft turned near Paris and was circling over the Evreux area after declaring an in-flight emergency.

The latest in a week of threats

At least seven flights and a cruise ship in Europe received bomb threats on Tuesday, causing disruption at airports although no devices were discovered, Reuters reported. Including Thursday's incident, at least nine flights in Europe have been subjected to bomb threats this week, forcing some to divert and an airport in Poland to briefly close, and no explosive devices have been found, according to authorities in various countries cited by AP.

Awaaz Punjab reported the earlier wave on Tuesday, when seven European flights and a cruise ship received bomb threats that were treated as hoaxes. Read the earlier story: seven flights hit by bomb-threat hoaxes

On Tuesday a security operation was also launched at the Greek island port of Syros after a bomb threat against the Panama-flagged cruise ship Crown Iris, which was due to sail to Haifa in Israel; an unknown person had claimed an explosive device was attached to the ship's hull, AP reported.

Authorities have not indicated who could have been behind the incidents and there were no claims of responsibility, AP said. The French prime minister's office said the situation at Evreux was being monitored by his office.

What happens next: the bomb squad's examination of the aircraft at Evreux-Fauville will decide when the jet and its passengers can continue, and investigators in France, Ireland and Italy have yet to say whether Thursday's threat is connected to Tuesday's wave or who sent any of them.