2010-01-23 20:06:39 - HAZMAT - United Kingdom EDIS CODE: HZ-20100123-24675-GBR
Date & Time: 2010-01-23 20:06:39 [UTC]
Area: United Kingdom, England, Manchester Airport, Manchester Not confirmed information! Description: A chemical incident has been declared at the U.K.’s Manchester Airport after an unidentified white powder was found, Greater Manchester Police said in an e- mailed statement. Part of Terminal Three was closed today after the powder was found on a man at a check-in desk, the statement said. The incident comes a day after the U.K.’s international terrorism threat level was raised to “severe” from “substantial.” “This investigation is at a very early stage,” Superintendent Leor Giladi said. “We have recovered an unidentified white powder, so we have taken the precaution of cordoning off the check-in desk at the terminal.” The threat level increase means “there is a strong possibility of future terrorist attacks and indicates a continuing high level of threat to the U.K.,” Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency said in a statement on its Web site. “I should stress that there is no intelligence to suggest that an attack is imminent,” Home Secretary Alan Johnson said in a statement late yesterday. The powder was located in a piece of luggage, the British Broadcasting Corp. said on its Web site. Inquiries are ongoing to establish what the substance is and no-one has been arrested, the police said. “I would like to stress that there is no imminent danger to anyone at the airport and there have been no reports of any injuries as a result of this substance being discovered,” Giladi said.
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