LONDON, March 13, 2008 (AFP) - A man was arrested after running onto a runway at London's busy Heathrow airport on Thursday, triggering a major security alert and disrupting flights, police said. "A man ran towards an Emirates flight," a police spokeswoman told AFP, as television pictures showed police vehicles scrambling to deal with the situation. "He has been removed. We believe he was acting alone." A controlled explosion was carried out on two bags which the man dropped during the incident, according to workforce sources at the airport. There was no sign of explosives, suggesting he may have been a protester, they said. BBC cited eyewitnesses saying the man scaled the airport's perimeter fence, ran onto the runway and was eventually surrounded by police and police dogs. One picture shown by Sky News appeared to show a policeman levelling a gun at the man as other colleagues dealt with him on the ground. There was no indication that the incident was terrorism-related. Britain has been under an increased security alert since the July 7, 2005 suicide bombings which killed 52 people on the London transport system. It is the second major security breach at the airport in the space of three weeks. On February 25, four activists from environmental campaigners Greenpeace staged a protest on top of a parked jet against the planned construction of a third runway. Thursday's incident came a day before Queen Elizabeth II is due to open the new Terminal Five (T5) at Heathrow, designed to increase the airport's capacity to some 100 million passengers a year. Heathrow is one of the world's biggest airports, currently handling over 68 million passengers a year. Protesters have recently stepped up a campaign against plans for a new runway at the airport, which they say will damage the environment and add to misery for local residents. Some flights were delayed because the northern runway, where the incident took place, was partially closed. A spokeswoman for the airport said: "Airport police swiftly apprehended a man near the northern runway of Heathrow this afternoon. "The northern runway is now being partially used while the police deal with the incident. The southern runway is fully operational. Some delays are occurring as a result."
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