Man arrested after Heathrow Airport incident that sparked evacuation of Terminal 4
On Monday evening at Heathrow airport, a man was arrested after an incident that led to the release of Terminal 4.
Following the “Potential Dangerous Substance Event” reports, which closed four terminals at Europe’s busiest airport for three hours, a major emergency service response was launched on Monday before 17:00. Metropolitan police expert officers, London Fire Department and London ambulance service joined the scene.
A 57 -year -old man was arrested on suspicion of having a firearm, and after finding an advantage of what was believed to be the CS spray of expert officers, caused a public distress on Tuesday.
According to the UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA), Spray is used by the UK Police Forces as a temporary insufficient spray. It may be dispersed into a cloud of smoke or dissolved into the liquid (solvent methyl iso-bull ketone) to be used as a spray. It is also used by the army to test training operations and to test gas masks.
This substance is thought to react to the airport, which caused the CS spray to be injured to health officials after causing irritation. It has been confirmed that spray did not cause life -changing or threatening injuries.
He said that the suspect was detained by the police and that the incident was not treated in relation to terrorism and that the investigation was ongoing.
Early media reports referred to a Met Insider who attributed the panic to the “mass hysteria incident ,, after notifying that there is no trace of negative substances on Monday evening on Monday evening.
While the airport advised passengers not to go to Terminal 4, dozens of flights were postponed from the incident at the 4th terminal of the busiest airport in Europe on Monday evening and thousands of travelers were affected. Transportation connections to the airport were already influenced by London underground strikes.
LFB, first called about the incident at 17:00 and Feltham, Heathrow, Wembley and the surrounding fire stations in the crew, he said.
While the emergency teams in Hazmat Suits entered the terminal, the crowds outside grew and the staff began to decrease foil blankets to passengers.
Witnesses, “no one really knows what happened,” he said they were involved. Heathrow said he had stopped the incident at 20 o’clock and allowed passengers to return to the terminal. But until then, flight programs were in turmoil.
The event comes months after the Heathrow airport’s closure of an electric transformer central fire that stops 1,300 flights of 1,300 flights.
London Heathrow has recorded the most intense airport in England and the busiest day so far last month. The airport saw more than a quarter million Passengers pass from four terminals on August 1 – a total of 270,869 passengers.
