Bomb scare interrupts flight

NICOSIA - A LOT Polish Airlines plane landed in Tel Aviv after making an emergency stopover in Cyprus because of a bomb scare…

NICOSIA - A LOT Polish Airlines plane landed in Tel Aviv after making an emergency stopover in Cyprus because of a bomb scare, but left its Israeli passengers on the holiday island, local and Israeli officials said yesterday.

But Israeli passengers declined to reboard the LOT Boeing 737, travelling from Warsaw to Tel Aviv.

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