Police lose explosives

POLICE training sniffer dogs at Paris’ top airport lost track of a passenger’s bag in which plastic explosives were placed, a police official admitted yesterday.

The luggage could have made it on to a flight, but there was virtually no risk of detonation, he said.

Police at Charles de Gaulle airport deliberately placed the bag containing 100 to 150 grammes of plastic explosives into a passenger’s luggage early on Friday evening, police spokesman Pierre Bouquin said.