Authorities investigating aircraft carrying explosives at Piarco

Au­thor­i­ties are con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions af­ter an air­craft car­ry­ing ex­plo­sives land­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port last night.

The Ukrain­ian air­craft, car­ry­ing a five-mem­ber Eu­ro­pean crew, was re­port­ed­ly en route to Libya and stopped in Trinidad to re­fu­el.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials were alert­ed af­ter con­cerns were raised about the con­tents list­ed on the air­craft’s car­go man­i­fest.

Guardian Me­dia learned the crew told au­thor­i­ties the car­go con­sist­ed of in­dus­tri­al ex­plo­sives but were un­able to pro­vide fur­ther de­tails to of­fi­cials last night.

Mil­i­tary and po­lice of­fi­cers were as­signed to main­tain se­cu­ri­ty at the air­port while in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue to­day.

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