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Security scare at Aus airport
25/06/2006 09:03 - (SA)
Sydney - Up to 200 Singapore Airlines passengers and staff were quarantined at an airport in southern Australia on Sunday after white powder was found on luggage, airport and emergency officials said.
Authorities said 80 of the passengers were required to take showers at Adelaide airport in a "wet decontamination process", although tests showed the substance was not dangerous.
"It showed up as negative on all of our tests for anything of concern," a fire service spokesperson said.
"It was then deemed a low-level powder incident and that's when we only decontaminated the 80 instead of the close to 200 that were on the flight."
All passengers and staff on the Singapore Airlines flight were later allowed to leave the airport, the spokesperson said.
- Reuters
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