Dutch police confirm 12 arrests on plane

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch police confirmed the arrests of
12 passengers on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for
India which was forced to turn back to Amsterdam’s Schiphol
airport on Wednesday.

“The 12 people that have been arrested were passengers,” a
spokesman said. “They will be interrogated in the coming hours
by police investigators.”

Asked whether a suspected terrorist attack could be ruled
out, the spokesman said: “We don’t want to get ahead of
ourselves.”