Venezuela grounds flight over terror threat
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities evacuated and searched an Air France flight late Saturday after being tipped off by French authorities that a terrorist group might be planning to detonate an explosive device in midair.
Venezuelan Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres told state TV that a team of more than 60 technicians and bomb experts were performing an exhaustive search of the aircraft that would take several hours before the flight could be reprogrammed.
Passengers aboard Flight 385 to Paris scheduled to depart at 7:25 p.m. local time Saturday were evacuated after French authorities received information from a credible source that a terrorist group is seeking to place a bomb aboard an unspecified flight between the two cities.
"We don't want to speculate on the motives because the information comes directly from French intelligence services," Rodriguez Torres said, adding that the information is still being processed and it is unclear whether the targeted flight would depart from Caracas or Paris.
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