A US air Marshall is currently in
quarantine in Houston, Texas today, after reportedly being attacked with
a syringe by an unknown individual at the Murtala Muhammed
International airport in Lagos.
The attack was said to be unprovoked. The assailant injected the air marshal with an unknown substance, abc News reports.
Sources
say the air marshal was traveling with a team of his colleagues when
the assault occurred in an “unsecured area” of the airport terminal.
After
the incident, he boarded his United Airlines flight to Houston, where
he was met by health workers from the Center for Disease Control (CDC)
and FBI agents.
Due to concerns that
the substance he was injected with could have potentially contained some
form of Ebola Virus, authorities immediately placed him in quarantine.
According to an FBI spokesperson,
“The
victim did not exhibit any signs of illness during the flight and was
transported to a hospital upon landing for further testing. None of the
testing conducted has indicated a danger to other passengers.”
Although
the individual that attacked the marshal escaped, the other air
marshals who were with him at the airport, were able to secure the
needle, and take it to the US for testing.
U.S
air marshals typically travel undercover in plain clothes. So it is
unclear whether the assailant knew the identity of his target.
Speaking on the incident, Jon Adler, national president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers
Association, said:
“While
there is no immediate intelligence to confirm this was a targeted
attack, this is our reminder that international cowards will attempt to
take sneaky lethal shots at our honorable men and women abroad.”
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