Air France flight makes emergency landing amid bomb scare
An Air France flight headed from Mauritius to Paris made an emergency landing in Kenya early Sunday after a passenger reported a suspicious device in the bathroom, authorities said. The airline has since called the incident a "false alarm," BuzzFeed News reports. The object was "believed to be an explosive device," according to a tweet from the Kenya Airports Authority.
Several passengers were questioned, and bomb experts inspected the device, The Associated Press reports. All 459 passengers and 14 crew members were evacuated safely.
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