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Britain
Oil Rig Off UK Evacuated After Bomb Alert
2008-02-10
AoS update: downgraded to 'Local' because it was a hoax.
An oil rig in the North Sea issued a security alert Sunday and authorities sent helicopters to evacuate more than 500 workers, the Ministry of Defense said. The cause of the alert was not immediately known. But British media reported the helicopters were carrying a bomb disposal unit to examine an explosive device that had been found on the rig about 170 miles off the city of Aberdeen in eastern Scotland.

Sky News quoted unidentified sources as saying that a woman aboard the rig had come under suspicion in connection with the explosive device.

The British Broadcasting Corp. said 14 Royal Air Force and coast guard helicopters were being sent to the Safe Scandinavia rig and that its evacuation of its 539 occupants had begun.
Posted by:lotp

#4  . . .a woman aboard the rig had come under suspicion . . .

I wonder if she has a name?
Posted by: Halliburton - Hyperbolic Idiot Detection Service   2008-02-10 17:31  

#3  she should be made too pay for all those ppl who went too rescue them
Posted by: sinse   2008-02-10 14:19  

#2  It's a hoax. Officials said the incident was quickly contained, however, and there was no need to send in a bomb squad.
Sky News said the evacuation followed a bomb threat, apparently made by a woman on board, but officials would not confirm the nature of the security alert. Sky later quoted sources as saying the episode was being treated as a hoax.
A police spokeswoman said the incident had been "very quickly contained from a police point of view". Nobody had been arrested, she said.
The Ministry of Defence in London was preparing to send a bomb disposal team but a spokesman said later the bomb squad had been stood down.

Posted by: GK   2008-02-10 11:40  

#1  Should be an interesting follow up.
Posted by: Icerigger   2008-02-10 09:24  

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