LONDON, Jan 9, (AFP) - Armed officers stormed a plane at London's Heathrow airport as it was about to depart for Dubai and arrested three men on suspicion of making a bomb threat, police said Saturday.
The Emirates flight was preparing to take off late Friday when a “verbal threat” was made to staff, London's Metropolitan Police Service said.
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“Police were alerted and armed officers boarded the plane,” a police statement said. “Three men aged 58, 48 and 36 were arrested and are now in police custody.
They have been arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat.”Police were searching the aircraft but media reported no harmful substances were believed to have been found on the plane, which had 331 passengers on board.
Sky News television reported that the men arrested were English and appeared to be drunk.
It broadcast a grainy photograph purportedly taken inside the aircraft, showing police in black overalls, and a passenger said officers brandishing guns in body armour burst onto the plane and hauled the suspects away. |
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