VLAD BLAZE PLOT TO DOWN PLANES
Daily Record|November 06, 2024
Firebombs in DHL 'planted by Russians'
CHRIS HUGHES
VLAD BLAZE PLOT TO DOWN PLANES

RUSSIAN spies plotted to firebomb commercial jets in a botched operation that sparked warehouse blazes, counter-terror chiefs fear.

It is believed Vladimir Putin's GU officers planted the magnesium devices hoping they would end up on transatlantic flights.

But one ignited at a DHL HQ in Minworth, near Birmingham, while the other set a shipping container ablaze at the firm's facility in Leipzig, Germany.

This story is from the November 06, 2024 edition of Daily Record.

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