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California airport closed after hazardous material found in luggage
Jan 5, 2010, 18:57 GMT
Los Angeles - Federal security officials suspended all flights to and from Bakersfield airport in southern California Tuesday after screeners were overcome by fumes from a hazardous material found in luggage there.
The small provincial airport was shut down shortly after 8 am local time as a bomb squad was called in to investigate. Local reports said that the two screeners were being treated in hospital and that the owner of the luggage containing the hazardous material was in police custody.
Security has increased at airports across the US in the aftermath of the failed Christmas Day plot to blow up an airliner over Detroit. On December 25, a Nigerian man allegedly tried to detonate explosives on board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
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