A British Foreign Secretary guard leaves his rifle on the seat of an aircraft
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
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British police on Saturday launched an investigation over reports that a bodyguard of the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, left a loaded rifle with bullets on a seat on an aircraft.
London's Metropolitan Police said one of its officers was "dismissed from active duty" after reports that a rifle was left on a plane that landed at London's Heathrow Airport on Friday, after a United Airlines flight from Washington, where Raab met with officials there. Americans.
The Sun newspaper said that a cleaner alerted managers after finding a gun loaded with bullets in its seat pouch.
The newspaper added that the police boarded the plane before determining that the weapon belonged to a protection officer for Rap.
"We learned about the incident yesterday and are taking the case very seriously," a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said.
The spokesman added, "The officer involved in the incident has been dismissed from active duty, while an internal investigation is underway regarding its circumstances."
The bodyguard of former Prime Minister David Cameron left his weapon in a plane toilet in February.
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The British Minister of Foreign Affairs