Dubai-bound flight delayed by 'terror' hoax

Two passengers on an Emirates Airline flight bound for Dubia were detained in Mumbai yesterday after authorities received a telephone tip claiming the pair were terrorists, reported The National. The Indian man and his wife were among 356 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 777 when the call was received, moments before the aircraft was scheduled to take off. The caller claimed the couple, thought to be in their 60s, were members of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba, which India blames for plotting and carrying out the Mumbai siege in 2008. The two individuals were taken off the flight, but there was nothing in their background that would suggest any kind of terrorist activity, said the deputy commisioner of police in Mumbai.