Underwear thief targets airline passengers

An underwear thief is terrorising plane passengers in Papua New Guinea. Women travelling with the national carrier Air Niugini are fed up with one or many baggage handlers nicking their knickers.

Four women, who wish to remain nameless, told how their best undergarments were stolen from luggage when travelling on domestic flights leaving the capital Port Moresby.



One tourist on a brief stay in PNG said her bag's lock was broken and the only item missing were g-strings and lace hipster briefs. "I could not believe it. I was shocked, it's just too creepy," she said. "I have travelled all around the world and this is the first time something like this has happened," she said.

Another woman visiting her mother in Lae, on PNG's northwest coast, discovered her pink panties were gone. "What makes it weirder is that I had much more valuable items to steal than my underpants," she said. Air Niugini officials said they would get to the bottom of the issue.