{"id":10590,"date":"2019-02-25T16:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T08:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=10590"},"modified":"2019-02-25T16:28:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T08:28:25","slug":"update-would-be-bangladeshi-plane-hijacker-had-toy-gun-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=10590","title":{"rendered":"Update: Would-be Bangladeshi plane hijacker had toy gun – police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DHAKA (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi passenger on a Dubai-bound flight who threatened to blow up the plane and tried to force his way into the cockpit was carrying a toy gun and no explosives, police said on Monday.
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Police are investigating how the man had been able to board the Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight in Dhaka on Sunday in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boeing 737-800 made an emergency landing in the southern port of Chittagong where commandos stormed the plane and shot the would-be hijacker, officials said. All 148 passengers and crew safely disembarked, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hijacker died later of his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The pistol with the suspect was a toy pistol and he had no bomb attached to his body,\u201d said Kusum Dewan, additional commissioner of Chittagong police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe appeared to be mentally imbalanced. We heard he had a personal issue with his wife and demanded to speak to the prime minister. But we are still investigating. We don\u2019t want to come to any conclusions right now.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air Vice Marshal Nayeem Hasan, chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority, said it was a mystery how the man, believed to be in his 20s, had managed to board the plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was the responsibility of the Civil Aviation Authority to search each passenger before boarding and it was done for this aircraft also, but it is a big question to us that how\u00a0he boarded with a pistol,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Now we are focusing on two issues \u2013 his background and identity and the security aspect that how he boarded with a pistol.” — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DHAKA (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi passenger on a Dubai-bound flight who threatened to blow up the plane and tried to force his way into the cockpit was carrying a toy gun and no explosives, police said on Monday. Police are investigating how the man had been able to board the Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}