Police in London have arrested a 57-year-old man suspected of bringing what is thought to be tear gas into Heathrow Airport, causing Terminal 4’s check-in area to briefly shut down.<\/p>\n
The check-in area at the UK’s main international airport was evacuated for around three hours yesterday evening as emergency services probed a “potential hazardous materials incident”.<\/p>\n
“Following urgent enquiries, a 57-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm (CS spray) and causing a public nuisance,” a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
After a search of the area, “Met officers located a cannister of what is believed to be CS spray.<\/p>\n
“It is thought that this substance caused a reaction to those within the airport,” the police said.<\/p>\n
CS spray is a riot control agent, also known as tear gas, which can cause a burning sensation to the eyes, throat, lungs and skin.<\/p>\n
Police said around 20 people reported symptoms of irritation and were treated by paramedics, but the spray “did not cause any life-changing\/threatening injuries”.<\/p>\n
The man remains in police custody and the incident is not being treated as terrorism related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in London have arrested a 57-year-old man suspected of bringing what is thought to be tear gas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-10907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}