Airport workers are seen near the Air France Boeing 777 aircraft that made an emergency landing is pictured at Moi International Airport in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa, December 20, 2015 (Reuters)
Kenyan police quashed media reports that a bomb was found in the toilet of a plane carrying 473 people from Mauritius to Paris.
A Kenyan police official says no explosives have been found yet in a suspicious device left on an Air France flight that caused the plane to be diverted to Mombasa, Kenya.
The police official, who is part of the investigation and who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said during the flight to Paris a passenger noticed something in one of the plane's lavatories that looked like "a stopwatch mounted on a box."
The passenger reported the suspicious device to the cabin crew and pilots requested an emergency landing.
The police official said the box has been taken apart and no explosives have been found but the digital watch has not yet been analyzed.
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