Rhodes airport pepper spray passengers
© Twitter/ellyjellybaby
Rhodes Airport in Greece has been evacuated amid reports passengers are suffering from 'burning eyes' and fume inhalation.

Passengers are being told to wait outside the building with large crowds building up.

Some have taken to social media talking about a possible pepper spray attack.

One user, @ellyjellybaby, said her parents were there and had seen people coughing.

She wrote on Twitter: 'Parents at Rhodes airport-Greece. They been told pepper spray attack? Ppl (sic) coughing Delayed flights Anyone know??'

Other reports online suggest it was evacuated for 'precautionary reasons' and could be a training exercise.

But another Twitter user, known as 'Gerry', said: 'Clearly wasn't a security exercise - not unless the airport was releasing something to make us cough/sneeze too.'

Other reports suggested a can of pepper spray 'exploded' while in a suitcase.

Nia Clark wrote on Twitter: 'My folks are there too. They've heard a passenger had pepper spray in their luggage and it exploded!'

It is understood passengers have now been let back in and flights have resumed.

Ellyjellybaby added her parents were on their flight and her mother had a 'stingy throat' after everyone was 'ushered back inside with no explanation'.