Baku police arrests two BP workers mistaking them for bio-terrorists

According to the police department of Khatai District, Paul Williamson and Duncan Jackson were detained on the territory of a police station near drinking water reservoirs on December 3. As the police says, the guards of the object captured them at the moment when they were scattering white powder from a plastic bag into the reservoir.

The arrested persons, who happened to be contractors of British Petrolium oil company were brought to a police station and then transferred to the Azerbaijani National Security Ministry for further investigation. Besides, an administrative map of Khatai District was found among their belongings. The plastic bag with the powder was sent for an examination to find out the composition of the substance.

As it was later found out Williamson and Jackson were jogging and marking their route with a white powder which as the examination showed was flour. Both foreigners were released and Ministry of National Security prepares an official statment regarding this case.

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