Police have arrested a man who tried to set himself on fire and began shouting pro-Osama bin Laden slogans aboard an Indian Airlines flight from the Middle East to India. The 30-year-old man was overpowered and subdued by the crew and fellow passengers. Moinuddin Khan took out a cigarette lighter and started burning his skin soon after flight IC-542 flight took off from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on its way to Hyderabad. He also shouted "Osama zindabad, Advani down, down." (Long live Osama and down with L.K. Advani, Indian home minister). Alarmed passengers and crew immediately overpowered Khan. He was handed over to the police when the plane landed at Hyderabad.
Police Inspector William Carrey told the Deccan Chronicle newspaper that Khan was a nut.
Man, they gotta get smoking sections back on those planes! |