Bomb threat at New Zealand's Queenstown Airport

| TNN | Jul 24, 2016, 14:05 IST

"Queenstown Airport is currently working with NZ Police to respon... Read More

NEW DELHI: Queenstown Airport was evacuated, on Sunday afternoon, and shut down after an airport employee found a note that said there is a bomb on the plane that he was cleaning.

After getting all the people out of the airport, police searched the Qantas plane but didn't find any explosives.

"Queenstown Airport is currently working with NZ Police to respond to a security alert," the airport said on its website, adding that the airport terminal was evacuated at 3:15 p.m. as a "precaution."

The airport has since re-opened and normal operations are expected to soon resume.

Queenstown Airport confirmed on its website that two flight landings were cancelled in the wake of the bomb scare. One flight each from Wellington and Auckland were canceled. A flight from Christchurch was diverted.

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TheAtheist

3054 days ago

Weakness harbours sin. So, if the Muslims beat us and we, the Hindus, tolerate this without resistance-then, we will know that it is made possible only by our weakness. For the sake of ourselves and our neighbour Muslims also, we have to discard our weakness. We can appeal to our neighbour Muslims, `Please don't be cruel to us. No religion can be based on genocide' - but this kind of appeal is nothing, but the weeping of the weak person. When the low pressure is created in the air, storm comes spontaneously; nobody can stop it for sake for religion. Similarly, if weakness is cherished and be allowed to exist, torture comes automatically - nobody can stop it. Possibly, the Hindus and the Muslims can make a fake friendship to each other for a while, but that cannot last forever. As long as you don't purify the soil, which grows only thorny shrubs you cannot expect any fruit. - Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate

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