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| Air France flight makes emergency landing in Kenya after bomb alert | Air France flight makes emergency landing in Kenya after bomb alert |
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| An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris has been forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a suspicious package was found on board . | An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris has been forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a suspicious package was found on board . |
| Flight AF 463, with 459 passengers and 14 crew members on board, had left Mauritius at 9pm local time on Saturday and was due to arrive in Paris Charles de Gaulle at 5.50am local time. | Flight AF 463, with 459 passengers and 14 crew members on board, had left Mauritius at 9pm local time on Saturday and was due to arrive in Paris Charles de Gaulle at 5.50am local time. |
| It landed at Moi international airport, Mombasa, before 1am local time. | It landed at Moi international airport, Mombasa, before 1am local time. |
| The Kenya Airports Authority said what is “believed to be an explosive device has successfully been retrieved” from an Air France flight. | |
| Police spokesman Charles Owino said: “It requested an emergency landing after a device suspected to be a bomb was discovered in the lavatory, an emergency was prepared and it landed safely and all passengers evacuated.” | Police spokesman Charles Owino said: “It requested an emergency landing after a device suspected to be a bomb was discovered in the lavatory, an emergency was prepared and it landed safely and all passengers evacuated.” |
| “Bomb experts from the Navy and the CID were called in and took the device which they are dismantling to establish if it had any explosives,” he said. | “Bomb experts from the Navy and the CID were called in and took the device which they are dismantling to establish if it had any explosives,” he said. |
| The plane was still in Mombasa airport in the early morning, he added. | The plane was still in Mombasa airport in the early morning, he added. |
| Scheduled flights to Mombasa were initially disrupted but normal operations have resumed. |