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Security concerns
10-year-girl flies across Russia with no ID or ticket
It sounds a bit like a scene from Home Alone.
RUSSIAN TRANSPORT POLICE have said a 10-year old girl flew from Moscow to St Petersburg (over 600km) without identification or a ticket.
The incident was reported yesterday and raises questions about security at Russian airports.
The girl, whose identity was not revealed, left home for school on Tuesday and did not return.
Alexander Rzhanenkov of St Petersburg city hall told Russian news agencies the girl went to Moscow’s Vnukovo airport where she mingled with a crowd boarding a flight to St Petersburg.
The official said she boarded the plane with a large family with children. Police picked her up at the airport in St Petersburg where she was wandering unaccompanied.
Children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said the girl’s trip sends “a serious alert sign” about airport security.
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