Arrests After Burning Jeep Hits Airport
Updated: 17:06, Saturday June 30, 2007
Three people have been arrested after a jeep was driven into the terminal building at Glasgow airport and caught fire, police have confirmed.
Witnesses reported hearing a series of loud “bangs” and saw at least two men - one of whom was on fire - emerge from the vehicle.
The jeep on fireThere are reports of several injuries.
The Cherokee 4x4 smashed into a glass door at Terminal One of the airport, the busiest in Scotland, which has now been closed.
Witnesses said some of the hundreds of people in the area removed gas cylinders from the jeep before it caught fire.
But there are reports the men were trying to fling petrol onto the flames.
Scott Gleeson said he saw the jeep speed up and swerve towards the terminal at an angle to hit the door.
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“They were obviously trying to get through to cause as much damage as possible,” he said.
Police say it is too early to say whether the incident - which comes after failed car bomb attacks in London - was related to terrorism.
Holidaymaker Stephen Clarkson said he knocked one of the men to the floor before police intervened.
He said: “There was an Asian male. He was lying on the floor and he was on fire, the Jeep was on fire as well.
There was chaos at the scene”The fellow got up and started fighting with police. I managed to knock the Asian fellow to the ground and four police officers got on top of him.”
He added: “His whole body was on fire. He was quite a big fellow and was disorientated otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to knock him down.”
James Edgar told Sky News: “People were running past like they has missed their flight.
“They told us all to get out of the airport.
“Everyone was in a panic and police and security were scuffling with an Asian gentleman.”
He added: “There was a lot of anger - if the crowds had got hold of this gentleman it would have been the end of him.”
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“There was an Asian male. He was lying on the floor and he was on fire, the Jeep was on fire as well.
There was chaos at the scene”The fellow got up and started fighting with police....
Hmmmm
Asian, my ass. These are Middle Eastern men. This PC crap has got to go. Can you imagine people restraining them if they were Japanese? It’s a slur on all Asia to use this PC Marxist propaganda language. And an insult to every reader of any newspaper in Britain.
Kudos to the quick-thinking folks in the terminal.
He added: “There was a lot of anger - if the crowds had got hold of this gentleman it would have been the end of him.”
Why didn't the coppers let them?