【10.07.15 印度时报】Chinese plane makes emergency landing following bomb threat

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BEIJING: A passenger plane flying from Urumqi, capital of China's restive Muslim majority Xinjiang province, to the south of the country was forced to make an emergency landing after the crew received a warning of a bomb aboard the aircraft, which later proved to be a hoax.

The China Southern Airlines' flight 3912 en route from Urumqi to Guangzhou landed safely at Zhongchuan airport in Lanzhou, capital of the China's northwest Gansu Province, last night safely, officials with the Gansu provincial public security bureau said.
All the 93 passengers and 18 crew members were evacuated immediately, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Police received call from the air traffic control authorities last night, saying the airline company, headquartered in Guangzhou, had received warnings of a bomb aboard the aircraft, according to the provincial public security bureau.

Security workers questioned all the passengers and crew, and finished searching the aircraft by early this morning, a spokesman with the public security bureau in Lanzhou said.

He said no bomb had been found. The passengers will be sent to Guangzhou by another flight. Among them was a baby and 10 foreigners, police said. The nationalities of the foreign passengers were not known.

Urmuqi witnessed heavy riots last year between native Muslim Uighurs and Chinese Hans settlers in which 200 people were killed and several hundreds injured.

Security in the province was strengthened recently as it observed the first anniversary of the riots on July 5. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/China/Chinese-plane-makes-emergency-landing-following-bomb-threat/articleshow/6170269.cms