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| Journalists gather after a commercial airplane flying from Morocco to Turkey made an emergency landing in Barcelona's El Prat airport in the early hours and 28 would-be migrants on board ran away across the tarmac in Barcelona, Spain December 7.(REUTERS) |
Spanish police were searching for 14 people who ran from a plane at Barcelona’s airport after it made an emergency landing Wednesday to obtain assistance for a pregnant woman who allegedly simulated that she was about to give birth, authorities said.
The office for Spain’s government in the
Catalonia region said the incident occurred when a Pegasus Airlines flight from
Casablanca, Morocco, to Istanbul with 228 passengers on board requested the
emergency landing at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport.
As the woman was getting evacuated from the
plane, 27 passengers exited the aircraft without authorization and “tried to
flee,” officials said.
Police stopped 13 of them. The other 14
managed to elude the police at the airport and remained at large.
The woman who was thought to be in labor
was detained on charges of public disorder after doctors at a hospital
determined that, although pregnant, she was not about to give birth.