Passengers were delayed and flights cancelled at a Japanese airport on Saturday (Aug 17) after a shop near the boarding gates misplaced a pair of scissors.

The security checkpoints at New Chitose Airport in the northern island of Hokkaido were closed for two hours after the lost scissors were reported.

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