Terror Alert: Pakistan Flights Suspended

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Breaking News8:22am UK, Thursday September 25, 2008

All flights in Pakistan have been suspended after a string of bomb warnings at airports across the country.

The country’s civil aviation authority is said to have instituted a state of emergency.

Benazir Bhutto International Airport has been evacuated after a phone call saying the building would be blown up.

Sky’s Asia correspondent Alex Crawford said there had been at least two separate threats, and the country was in a state of “high anxiety”.

She said the first threat came in a call to Pakistan International Airline’s call centre.

The second threat was made to the media warning of attacks at airports across the country.

Crawford added: “There is a high degree of nervousness here. They are treating it as an emergency and restricting all movements in and out of the airport.

“The UN is meeting and meant to be deciding whether to remove its staff from the country. Many foreigners and ex-pats feel confined to their homes.”

Earlier, the group claiming responsibility for a bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in the capital warned of more attacks.

Saturday’s truck bombing left 53 people dead and more than 260 wounded.

More to follow…

Source – http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Pakistan-Major-Security-Alert—Many-Flights-In-The-Country-Suspended/Article/200809415106744?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15106744_Pakistan%3A_Major_Security_Alert_-_Many_Flights_In_The_Country_Suspended