Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Poland has detained four people suspected of being involved in test runs for a Russian plot to detonate parcel bombs on US-bound transatlantic flights. Warsaw launched an investigation after Germany said last month that it narrowly avoided a plane crash when a parcel destined for an aircraft’s hold burst into flames before the flight at a DHL logistics centre in Leipzig. The UK’s counterterrorism police are also investigating the origins of another package that caught fire at a DHL depot in Birmingham in July. According to two European security officials briefed on intelligence assessments, the European incidents, which involved packages sent from Lithuania, were designed in part to test whether the same methods could be used to attack flights to the US.” (11/05/24)