Three former Kingfisher employees held over crude bomb
March 26th, 2010 - 10:04 pm ICT by IANSBangalore, March 26 (IANS) Three former employees of the Kingfisher airlines have been detained in connection with the detection of an explosive device in a flight at Thiruvananthapuram March 21, police said Friday.
The three, all from Kerala, were taken into custody at Bangalore International Airport Thursday when they were to take a flight to Dubai, Bangalore north-east division Deputy Commissioner of Police Basavaraj Malagatti told IANS.
“Kerala police have taken the three back to the state,” said Malagatti, under whose jurisdiction the Bangalore airport falls.
He said the three told police that they were working with Kingfisher airlines but had left the company as they got jobs abroad.
The explosive device was found in the cargo section of the Kingfisher plane after it landed in Thiruvananthapuram from Bangalore. The flight had 27 passengers and four crew members.
After the passengers and the crew had deplaned, a routine security check of the aircraft led to the detection of the device wrapped in school question paper and Malayalam newspaper.
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