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Bomb Alert: IS panic chases NATO

Syed Anas Pasha |
Update: 2014-09-05 06:06:00
Bomb Alert: IS panic chases NATO

DHAKA: Determination of strategies to address the Islamic State' (IS) is the main agenda of this year’s 25th NATO Summit, has commenced on Thursday at Newport city in United Kingdom (UK).

Top leaders of members countries of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), including its Secretary General Rasmussen roared against IS, but the evidence found that panic griped the leaders by the IS treat, through bomb alert announcement at Newport superstore.

Virtually, Newport is now a police-control city. Except the summit venue, police are patrolling at every points of the town. Some Army personnel also have been deployed to ensure security of main venue. Military helicopter are conducting air patrol.  

Police suddenly have issued a bomb alert in Tesco Superstore located at center of Newport city where the NATO Summit is being held.

The store was evacuated with in a moment, with customers escorted outside the cordon set up around the site.

Then police started searching there but did not found any bomb or bomb-like substances. Later, Tesco has been opened for customers.

The 26th summit of NATO is being held in presence of nearly 60 world leaders from more than 30 partner countries, including US president Barak Obama, British PM David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Markel, and international organisations like the United Nations, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the EU.

Whole Newport has been covered under security curtain on the occasion of the Summit at Celtic Manor Resort. A total of 9,500 police have been deployed to ensure security of world leaders.

The summit took place in the context of worsening global security environment and growing instability in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

BDST: 1545 HRS, SEP 05, 2014

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