AP-BHW Bomb alerts forced two Pakistan International Airlines planes Wednesday to land at Istanbul's Ataturk airport and in Kuala Lumpur, officials and news agency reports said.Security officials with sniffer dogs searched the Boeing 777-300EA in Istanbul, which had 378 passengers on board, Anatolia news agency said. The bomb alert, which came as the aircraft was flying over the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, caused panic among passengers, the agency said. After landing in Istanbul around 1400 GMT, the passengers were evacuated from the aircraft, which was moved to a security zone.
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