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4 airports remain under US laptop ban

A passenger is seen placing a laptop in his checked baggage after US authorities banned carry-on personal electronics on US bound flights from airports in the Middle East and North Africa

The ban remains in place for Saudi Arabia's two main international airports, in Riyadh and Jeddah, as well as Egypt's Cairo International and Morocco's Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport, the Department of Homeland Security said.

Six others across the Middle East have been removed from the ban, originally put in place on March 21, after improving security procedures.

The ban requires travellers to pack all personal electronic devices larger than cellphones in luggage stored in the aircraft's baggage compartment.

The move came after intelligence officials learned of efforts by the Islamic State group to fashion a bomb into consumer electronics.

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The original ban was focused on airports in the Middle East and North Africa.

But last month, DHS issued directives to 180 carriers around the world flying into the United States mandating improvements in security procedures, especially physical and technological screening of baggage and electronics.

The directives included pressure to install explosive-detecting scanners within weeks, as well as adding more bomb-sniffing dogs.

"I am concerned that we are seeing renewed interest on the part of terrorist groups to go after the aviation sector -- from bombing aircraft to attacking airports on the ground, as we saw in Brussels and Istanbul," said Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

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