Airport security to be reviewed after criminal escapes
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An investigation is under way into security flaws at Suvarnabhumi Airport after an accused German criminal managed to escape via an airport fire exit while transiting during extradition from Australia to his home country earlier this month.
On May 15, German national Carlo Konstantin Kohl escaped his police escort while waiting to transit through Bangkok’s main international airport en route to Germany. He was being deported from Australia and was accompanied by two Australian police officers.
Security cameras showed the man fleeing a room where he was being held while his two guards were asleep at about 4.30am the day after his arrival at the airport, an AoT source said Monday. He appeared to survey several possible escape routes before opting to escape through Concourse G, which was not crowded at the time, the source said.
The Nation
