China steps up security at its airports
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CHINA has stepped up security measures at its airports in response to the attacks in Brussels, the aviation administration said yesterday.
Surveillance is heavy and widespread throughout the country, which has long had mandatory bag screenings and ID checks at train station entrances, although airport terminals have generally not been subject to such measures.
Security personnel at airports in Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu were seen swabbing some passengers’ bags outside terminals yesterday.
The measures came days after the suicide bombings that killed 31 people at the airport and metro in Brussels, capital of Belgium and home to the headquarters of NATO and the European Union.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in an e-mail that the latest measures were intended to “inspect every passenger entering the airport.”
They were being taken “because of terrorist incidents in Belgium,” it added.
Every airport in China has introduced extra security measures, an employee separately told reporters.
At Beijing Capital Airport, three officers were stationed at a terminal entrance testing bags under a sign that read: “Security inspection for anti-explosive. Please cooperate.” Not all passengers were checked outside the terminals, however, and there were no additional pat-downs or X-rays.
At Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport, one of the city’s two main airports, two employees in blue uniforms labeled “Explosive Detection” swabbed the bags of some, but not all, incoming passengers at the main entrance of the terminal.
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