Germany suspends air freight from Yemen
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German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Saturday that Germany is stopping air freight from Yemen after one of the two explosives-filled parcels from Yemen bound for the United States have been founded to have been reloaded in Germany, German newspaper reports said on Saturday evening.
"The German government will ensure that from now on no more air freight from Yemen will come to Germany," German newspaper Bild am Sonntag quoted the minister as saying on Saturday evening.
The move came after two explosives-filled parcels from Yemen, bound for synagogues in Chicago, were intercepted respectively on cargo planes in Dubai and at Britain's East Midlands Airport on Thursday.
German news reports quoted British investigators as saying that the explosives-filled parcel intercepted at the British airport had been shipped by a cargo plane flying from Cologne, Germany, where it was reloaded for further transportation to the United States.
At the request of the U.S. aviation security authorities, the German Transport Ministry has asked the German logistics company DHL to beef up its security control of air cargo from Yemen at its hub in Leipzig. The German Federal Aviation Agency has also instructed all airlines, express service providers and other companies to intensify control of stored and incoming freight from Yemen.
