Hamas bomb threat email was sent 27 minutes after Ryanair flight was forces to land in Belarus

An email containing a ‘bomb threat’ that forced a Ryanair flight to land in Belarus has been revealed to have been sent almost half an hour after the plane was grounded. Belarusian officials have said Flight FR4978 from Athens to Vilnius had to be diverted on Sunday due to the threat, which they claimed came from the Palestinian militant group Hamas. When the flight landed in Minsk, a Belarusian journalist and critic of President Alexander Lukashenko was arrested. Roman Protasevich’s arrest, along with that of his girlfriend, has led several Western countries to consider sanctions on Belarus, which faced a…