(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Authorities in Venezuela evacuated an Air France jet poised for takeoff to Paris last night after French officials warned of a potential bomb threat. "We received information from French intelligence services... on an explosive believed to be planted aboard to be detonated on a Caracas-to-Paris or Paris-to-Caracas flight," Venezuela's Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres told state television. A team of 65 local intelligence experts was set to search the jet carefully as well as the airport terminal, Rodriguez Torres added. "We are going to search this aircraft inch by inch. And then the flight will be rescheduled," he said. "So we apologise to passengers, but it is our duty to protect lives," he added, without giving further details.
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