Brisbane: A portion of the Brisbane Airport was closed after a package with the words 'Bomb to Brisbane' was found along a baggage carousel. Passengers at the airport were removed from the area and a traveller who noticed the bag said she thought it was a joke.
The Australian Federal Police did not take the issue lightly and bag was examined thoroughly. They could not find any suspicious abject inside the bag. It later turned out that the suspicious piece of luggage belonged to an elderly lady who was travelling from Mumbai to Brisbane. In order to identify her bag, the lady had meant to write 'Bombay', not bomb.
Venkata Lakshmi (65) arrived in Brisbane from Mumbai only to be interrogated by the Federal Police. Lakshmi's daughter Devi Jothiraj said that her mother was mortified about the "mix-up". "She was pulled into a room and interviewed. My mother told me they thought something was in there and people were panicking. They asked her to open the bag and asked her why it says bomb and she said - It's for Bombay!" said Jothiraj.
