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Thu 01 Jan 2010Slovakian comedy of errors: how events unfolded
Saturday morning: Slovakian border police covertly placed plastic explosives in the luggage of a man flying to Dublin from Poprad-Tatry airport in eastern Slovakia. The explosives were planted as part of an exercise to test sniffer dogs at the airport.
The Slovakian ministry of the interior said one of the sniffer dogs detected the explosives. The dog’s police handler removed one batch of explosives but before he removed a second batch he got called to another job. He then forgot to go back to the passenger to get the second batch, according to the ministry.
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