PASSENGERS' SECURITY * Canada - Greyhound steps up security after attacks
New measures, including a ban on most carry-on luggage and magnetic screening, come months after a passenger was beheaded on board
Winnipeg, Canada -The Los Angeles Times (USA), by Kim Murphy -December 14, 2008: -- Sleep hasn't come easy to freelance music agent Joseph Egan since that Halloween bus ride on the lonely rural highways of western Canada... Three months after a sleeping passenger had been beheaded by his seatmate on the same prairies west of Winnipeg, Egan was confronted by a drunken woman behind him... A horrifying string of stabbings and threats on intercity buses has prompted Greyhound Lines Inc. to roll out stepped-up security screening at terminals across Canada... The measures, even stricter than most of those the company adopted in the United States after the Sept. 11 attacks, include a ban on most hand-held luggage, hand searches of any items carried on board and magnetic screening of all passengers at the terminals... The heightened passenger screening debuted this month at bus stations in Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary, and will be expanded Monday to include all major intercity bus terminals across Canada... (Photo)Labels: security on buses
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