What not to wear boarding a flight... a pair of electronic massage shoes (complete with batteries and an on/off switch)By Daily Mail Reporter
10th May 2010
A passenger was detained by airport authorities in Pakistan after electrical circuits
and batteries were found in the soles of his tennis shoes, an airport security official said today.
Officials were investigating what the components could be used for and why they were concealed.
Similar materials can be used in the construction of bombs.
Faiz Mohammad was arrested at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport last night, said Munir Ahmed,
a spokesman for the airport security force. The materials were detected by a scanner.
Mr Ahmed said each shoe contained a small circuit connected to two AAA batteries.
Mohammad, a building constructor who was heading for Muscat in Oman, told investigators he
bought the shoes from a market in Karachi and had no idea there were circuits hidden inside the soles.
'It is premature to say what was he up to. We are looking into the matter thoroughly,' police
official Sohail Faiz said.
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