Lion Air passengers suffer broken bones and head wounds after man makes false bomb threat

At least 10 passengers on a flight preparing to take off from Borneo island were injured, most of them with broken bones and head wounds, after panic ensued when a man claimed there was a bomb on board, Indonesian police said Tuesday. Passengers overheard the 26-year-old man, Frantinus Nirigi, telling a flight attendant there was a bomb on the Lion Air Boeing 737, which was to carry 189 passengers to Jakarta on Monday night, said West Kalimantan police spokesman Nanang Purnomo. An eventual inspection of the plane found no explosives. -- More...

Video footage of the passengers panicked after one claimed to have a bomb on board during boarding, on a @LionAirID jet at #PNKairport

This is the 9th #bombhoax on airplanes in Indonesia in May 2018. :( pic.twitter.com/10xtyEXLT1

— Gerry Soejatman (@GerryS) May 28, 2018

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