A plane bound for China’s restive northwestern Xinjiang region was forced to land on Thursday after a passenger claimed there was a bomb on board, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing officials. Police detained the woman passenger after she threatened to detonate a bomb during the China United Airlines flight from Beijing to Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi, Xinhua reported. It did not say whether any explosives had been discovered on the plane, which made an emergency landing at Gansu’s Jiayuguan Airport on Thursday evening.
