Red alert sounded at Chennai airport after bomb threat
10/08/2019, S. VIJAY KUMAR,CHENNAI
A red alert was sounded at the airport following a bomb threat early on Friday. Security was intensified after an input was conveyed from New Delhi about a caller who warned of an explosion in the airport.
Security personnel conducted anti-sabotage check and enhanced armed guards at vantage points, police sources said.
A phone call was received at the New Delhi airport police control room saying that a woman passenger boarding a flight in Chennai-bound to Saudi Arabia was carrying an explosive substance. An emergency meeting was convened involving officials of Airports Authority of India, Central Industrial Security Force, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, intelligence agencies and others. Heightened security arrangements are already in place at all airports in the State ahead of the Independence Day and following the revocation of special status for Jammu & Kashmir.
Frisking was intensified shortly after midnight on Friday and entry to the airport was restricted to passengers and authorised personnel.
10/08/2019, S. VIJAY KUMAR,CHENNAI
A red alert was sounded at the airport following a bomb threat early on Friday. Security was intensified after an input was conveyed from New Delhi about a caller who warned of an explosion in the airport.
Security personnel conducted anti-sabotage check and enhanced armed guards at vantage points, police sources said.
A phone call was received at the New Delhi airport police control room saying that a woman passenger boarding a flight in Chennai-bound to Saudi Arabia was carrying an explosive substance. An emergency meeting was convened involving officials of Airports Authority of India, Central Industrial Security Force, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, intelligence agencies and others. Heightened security arrangements are already in place at all airports in the State ahead of the Independence Day and following the revocation of special status for Jammu & Kashmir.
Frisking was intensified shortly after midnight on Friday and entry to the airport was restricted to passengers and authorised personnel.
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