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Nigeria: a terrorist attack on flight has been thwarted

Lagos, Nigeria - The security forces have seized some bottles with liquid explosive

The Nigerian Minister of Transports, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said yesterday the airport security forces of Lagos have made fail a plan to make explode on flight "Five objects with an high potential in a plane of the Nigerian domestic airline". All the national TV networks have shown the images of the objects, bottles of about one liter with an explosive liquid inside. The Ministry of Transports...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 69619
Rome, Italy, 11/20/2006 13:41
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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