Fear of attack in a Pakistani aircraft

September 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News

The Swedish police arrested on Saturday morning, a Canadian of Pakistani origin suspected of having wanted to blow up a Boeing 777 of Pakistan from Canada. The plane, bound for Pakistan, was forced an emergency landing at the airport in Stockholm. ”We hold a man suspected of having explosives on board the aircraft between Canada and Pakistan,” said the head of the investigation, the Commissioner Stefan Raadman. He was arrested “for making aircraft sabotage, in the words of the Swedish law,” he said, adding that he was a citizen of “approximately 30″. However, no explosives were found in the immediate future, according to police. The aircraft departed Canada and was on the route between Calgary and Karachi. Some 243 passengers, including the suspect, and 18 crew members aboard, according to a spokesman for the airline in Pakistan. This is the crew of the aircraft that was alerted to the presence of a possible bomber and decided the emergency landing. One woman contacted the Canadian police and said there was a man on board who could possibly have explosives on him. It is not known at this time who this woman is, “said Janne Hedlund, a carrier Spokespersons of the Stockholm police. The deminers were then deployed to the airport. Then “the passengers of the aircraft were evacuated and the suspect who was on board was taken to the police station of the airport,” said Kjell Lindgren, a spokesman for the Stockholm police.

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