LONDON: The daughter of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was held up at gunpoint during an attempted robbery as she was out walking in London, local media said yesterday. Kathryn Blair, 25, a barrister, was targeted as she walked down a central London street with her boyfriend and a group of friends, the BBC reported. Police confirmed an incident involving two male suspects with a gun took place in central London on Monday evening. “The victims were a man and a woman; the suspects were two males,” they said in a statement, adding the incident was being linked with another attempted robbery nearby 30 minutes earlier. “On both occasions a firearm was seen but not used — no shots were fired. None of the victims were injured and nothing was stolen during the incidents,” police said. It said investigations were under way but no arrests had been made. A spokesman for Tony Blair’s office could not be reached for comment.
Baby dies on airport luggage belt in Spain
MADRID: A five-month-old baby died in a Spanish airport yesterday after being placed on a luggage belt that then started moving without its parents noticing, officials said. The baby was at the baggage claim with its mother — a US national — and its Canadian father after a flight from London early yesterday morning in the eastern city of Alicante. “The five-month old baby was on the belt. I don’t know if it was placed on it directly, or in a cradle,” a spokeswoman she said.
“It was about two o’clock in the morning, on the belt for retrieving special baggage, where children’s push chairs and large items come out,” which was activated when the parents were not looking, the spokeswoman added. “The airport medical service tried to resuscitate the baby but they could not do anything.” Police were “investigating the exact circumstances”, a Civil Guard spokesman said. “It all appears to have been an accident, a case of carelessness.” Agencies
