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Air France flight makes emergency landing in Kenya over bomb scare

India Blooms News Service | | Dec 20, 2015, at 07:28 pm

Nairobi, Dec 20 (IBNS): An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris was forced to land in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa following a bomb scare, media reports said on Sunday.

Flight AF 463 carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew members on board left Mauritius at 9pm local time (1700 GMT) and was due to arrive in Paris Charles de Gaulle at 5:50am (0450 GMT).

However, it landed at Moi International Airport in Mombasa before 1am local time (2137 GMT).

The bomb scare was raised after a device suspected to be a bomb was found in the lavatory.

All passengers were safely evacuated.

#Air France flight # Emergency landing # Kenya # Air France bomb scare

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