Sydney - Arab Today
A flight from Sydney to Thailand was diverted to Indonesia to offload a group drunken Australian traveling companions who started throwing punches at each other, officials said on Thursday.
Jetstar Flight 27 was carrying 314 passengers when it diverted to Bali on Wednesday night after the six who were traveling together to the tourist island of Phuket became “extremely disruptive among themselves” and refused requests from the crew, the Australian budget airline said in a statement.
The airline said all six were forced off the plane, but Bali officials said only five men were held by airport security and faced deportation to Australia. It is not clear what happened to the sixth passenger.
Man crashes burning car into police station
A man was arrested in Sydney Thursday and a bomb disposal squad was examining his car after he drove it into an underground police station car park.
Australian police said there was “nothing to indicate” a link to terrorism but would not rule out the possibility.
The man, aged in his 60s, parked his car in the driveway of the station in the western suburb of Merrylands about 7 p.m. (0900 GMT), New South Wales state police said, adding that the inside of the vehicle burst into flames as an officer approached it.
“The man then drove that vehicle down the driveway and collided with the roller shutter door (of the car park) under the police station,” Assistant Commissioner Denis Clifford told reporters outside the station.
“He has been treated by ambulance and conveyed to hospital in a serious condition with what I understand are very serious burns.”
Clifford said there was “nothing to indicate this is in anyway related to terrorism.”
“We’ll keep an open mind but we are not moving in that way at this stage,” he said, adding that “we have nothing to indicate he is linked to anyone else.”
The man has a history of mental health issues, police told AFP earlier.
Source: Arab News