Man who caused missile false alarm in Hawaii is sacked

Tim Allman 2018-01-31

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A government employee who caused panic in Hawaii when he sent out a false alert for an imminent ballistic missile attack earlier this month has been sacked. His boss - the head of the state's emergency management agency - has resigned. Officials said the employee had mistaken a practice drill for a real attack - and had made the same mistake twice before. The BBC's Tim Allman reports.

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