Two men were reportedly arrested after they threatened to bomb a Pakistan International Airlines flight to Manchester earlier today. 297 passengers of the plane were accompanied by 11 crew members, totaling more than 300 people.
The 9am flight was lead to Stansted Airport by U.K. fighter jets after the men "got into an altercation with air stewardesses and threatened to blow up the plane," said Pakistan's High Commissioner, Wajid Hasan.
Scrambled fighter jets came to escort the plane after the pilot alerted the air traffic control authorities of the event. At Standsted Airport, the immigration authorities is screening and checking all passengers and their belongings. They have found nothing so far, but they promised to keep looking for 4 more hours until all have been checked.
The Lahore, Pakistan origin plane passengers can receive consular assistance from officials sent from the commission. However, passengers in Stansted were delayed during the event, describing it as a "terrorist scare."
Pakistan International Airlines warns angry passengers to learn a "lesson" from this, and not to threaten fellow passengers and staff. It seems that if the passenger had just held his peace for 20 minutes, he would have arrived at his destination without all this hiatus.
Police have been watching carefully for the past few days after a suspiciously terror-like attack in south London, where two men murdered a british soldier under the sun with knives and a meat cleaver. Those two men were shot and hospitalized.
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