US Air Marshall stung with a syringe after arriving on a United Airlines flight

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After arriving on United Airlines an US Federal Air Marshal was attacked and possibly poisoned. The plain-clothed officer was stabbed with a syringe and an unknown substance.

After arriving on United Airlines an US Federal Air Marshal was attacked and possibly poisoned. The plain-clothed officer was stabbed with a syringe and an unknown substance. This happened at the airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday after he arrived on a United Airlines flight from Washington.

The marshal was not severely injured by the needle prick, but it was unclear if it contained any hazardous or viral substances. The FBI said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted an on-scene screening of the victim when United Flight 143 landed in Houston early Monday morning.

It appeared the stabber did not know the victim was an air marshal and it may have been a robbery attempt, sources told NBC News.

Sources told NBC Houston affiliate KPRC that “a group of federal agents in plain clothes were about to walk through security at the Lagos airport Sunday when they were approached by a group of men.

Sources say one of them stabbed a needle into an agent’s arm and then they all ran away.” The agent then pulled the needle out, and then stored it in a safe container, the sources said. The FBI is now testing the needle.

It’s unclear what Nigerian authorities did, and how this could be prevented in Nigeria to happen again, or happen to other passengers.

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