Sri Lanka, July 31 -- A Delta Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Wednesday after dozens of people were injured during "significant" turbulence.

Flight 56 bound for Amsterdam took off from Salt Lake City airport at 16:30 local time (23:30 BST), before being diverted to Minneapolis. It landed just over two hours into its nine-hour flight time, at around 19:45 local time.

Medical personnel met the Airbus A330-900 to "evaluate customers and crew" after it arrived in Minneapolis, with 25 passengers then transported to local hospitals for care.

In a statement, Delta said that it is "working with customers to support their immediate needs".

There were 275 passengers and 13 crew members ...