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Airport staff tonight told of their fears of an Ebola outbreak after a passenger from Sierra Leone collapsed and died as she got off a plane at Gatwick. Workers said they were terrified the virus could spread globally through the busy international hub from the West African country which is in the grip of the deadly epidemic. The woman, said to be 72, became ill on the gangway after she left a Gambia Bird jet with 128 passengers on board. She died in hospital.

A man has been arrested at Gatwick Airport under anti-terrorist laws. It follows the arrest of two men near Heathrow. Gatwick's North Terminal has been closed and its flights suspended. No further details have been released by Sussex Police. Stansted Airport has announced its security is being stepped up.

ALERT AT GATWICK AIRPORT Police have evacuated parts of Gatwick Airport because of a suspect vehicle found in the area. The vehicle was spotted abandoned near the South Terminal, prompting a full security alert. The South Terminal has been evacuated and surrounding roads have been closed off, including the perimeter road and part of the nearby A23. A small number of flights are still departing from the South Terminal and the North Terminal has not been affected. But rail services and traffic around the airport, near Crawley, Sussex, has been severely disrupted and passengers are advised to leave a lot...

Anti-terrorist officers are continuing to question a man caught with a live hand grenade in his luggage at Gatwick airport. Venezuelan authorities have named the man as Rahaman Alan Hazil Mohammad, who has Venezuelan citizenship, says the BBC. The head of the country's immigration service told the BBC the man, aged 40, was known to the Venezuelan authorities before his arrest. He had reportedly visited a number of 'sensitive countries', although he refused to give further details. Mohammad, currently in custody at high-security Paddington Green police station in west London, was arrested on Thursday after he flew in on a...