News / Europe's logistics operators tighten security after alert by UK counter-terror services

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Details are emerging of an investigation by counter-terrorism police into a fire at a DHL warehouse in the UK, after fears an incendiary device was planted by Russian spies. 

Nobody was injured in the blaze at the DHL parcels warehouse in Minworth, Birmingham, on 22 July, but also late that month, a DHL package from the Baltics caught fire at its Leipzig hub and investigators are looking into links between the two incidents.  

The Birmingham parcel is thought to have been ...