Highlights
- Bomb menace on Moscow-Delhi flight, search underway at Delhi airport
- Following the menace mail, safety businesses had been put on alert
- The flight on the Indira Gandhi International Airport is being checked
IGI airport bomb menace:Â A threatening e mail warning of a bomb in a Delhi-bound flight from Moscow was acquired at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) on Thursday (October 13) evening, the officers stated.
Following the menace mail, safety businesses had been put on alert and airport safety was beefed up.
The flight on the Indira Gandhi International Airport is being checked. According to police, the flight was to reach on the Delhi airport at 3:20 am from Moscow.
“There was a call at 11:15 pm about a bomb in the flight coming from Moscow to Terminal 3 (T3) at 3:20 tonight. Flight number SU232 landed on runway 29,” an official stated.
Total 386 passengers and 16 crew members had been deboarded from the flight. The matter is being investigated. This shouldn’t be the primary time such an incident has occurred. On September 10, a bomb menace name for a London-bound Air India flight was acquired on the airport after that safety businesses had been alerted.
“We received a bomb threat call about a flight going to London. On Thursday night at 10:30 pm, a phone call came on the landline of Ranhola police station in Outer Delhi. The caller said that on the lines of 9/11 attacks in the US, an Air India flight to London would be blown up,” Delhi Police sources had stated.
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