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Suspicious bag delays German airliner
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November 19, 2010, Friday
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AN Air Berlin flight from Namibia was delayed after police found a bag with a fuse in the luggage hall of the airport in the southern African nation's capital, German authorities said yesterday.
Authorities in Windhoek, Namibia, were investigating whether the device found Wednesday morning could have exploded. But Air Berlin spokeswoman Sabine Teller said no explosives were found in the bag.
A scan showed batteries attached by wires to a fuse and a clock, Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office said.
The incident came as Germany was already on edge after German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere raised the country's terrorist threat level on Wednesday, saying intelligence services had received a tip from an unspecified country about a suspected attack planned for the end of November.
Concern about the possibility of international flights being targeted by terrorists rose last month when two mail bombs were discovered while being sent on cargo planes from Yemen to the United States. One of them went through a German °?airport before being found in?Britain.
The suitcase was found in the luggage hall area near where those intended for the Air Berlin flight were, and the flight's luggage was rechecked as a precaution. All passengers on the flight had to identify their own bags, and none were found without an owner, she said.
Still, de Maiziere told reporters that according to preliminary investigations, it appeared likely the bag was intended for the flight.
Teller said she did not know whether Namibian police had determined the suspicious bag's owner, or exactly what flight it was intended for.
Authorities in Windhoek, Namibia, were investigating whether the device found Wednesday morning could have exploded. But Air Berlin spokeswoman Sabine Teller said no explosives were found in the bag.
A scan showed batteries attached by wires to a fuse and a clock, Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office said.
The incident came as Germany was already on edge after German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere raised the country's terrorist threat level on Wednesday, saying intelligence services had received a tip from an unspecified country about a suspected attack planned for the end of November.
Concern about the possibility of international flights being targeted by terrorists rose last month when two mail bombs were discovered while being sent on cargo planes from Yemen to the United States. One of them went through a German °?airport before being found in?Britain.
The suitcase was found in the luggage hall area near where those intended for the Air Berlin flight were, and the flight's luggage was rechecked as a precaution. All passengers on the flight had to identify their own bags, and none were found without an owner, she said.
Still, de Maiziere told reporters that according to preliminary investigations, it appeared likely the bag was intended for the flight.
Teller said she did not know whether Namibian police had determined the suspicious bag's owner, or exactly what flight it was intended for.
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