‘Bomb’ scare at Kota Kinabalu airport


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 09 Aug 2003

KOTA KINABALU: A passenger’s black briefcase suspected to contain explosives put to test the security alertness at Kota Kinabalu International Airport on Thursday night.  

Without any disruption to flights and passenger flow, the seven-hour scare turned out to be one caused by an electric shaver that was switched on and some Sarawak pepper in the briefcase belonging to a Japanese passenger. 

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