Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport is among others that received an email of bomb threat on Monday morning. At the end of the day though nothing serious was found, the airport officials, security agencies, passengers stayed tensed and busy throughout the day. The other airports those received such emails included Kanpur, Goa and others. Confirming the development Sr Airport Director of MIHAN India Limited (MIL), Abid Ruhi, that takes care of city airport told ‘The Hitavada’, “We received an official email where it was written that there are bombs in the aircraft, at the airport. The sender has not sent separate mail to us. Our email address was one of the email addresses of the other airports. After receiving the email, we immediately informed all the security agencies, city police, Central Industry Security Force (CISF). The security agencies swung into action. We appealed people not to panic and took care that flight services should not get affected.”

 

The email prompted officials to beef up security measures and conduct a thorough search operation. After receiving information from airport officials, the police and bomb squad reached airport and conducted a search. Every aircraft was checked. Strict measures were taken for passenger checking system. Though Police did not confirm that it was a hoax, they did not find any suspicious material till the writing of this report. Police and other agencies are trying to find the sender of the hoax email. Extra precautions were taken with security has been beefed up but flight operations remained unaffected. All the airports which received this threat are collaborating with each other. On April 26 Kolkata and Jaipur airports too had received threat and after investigation Mumbai Police arrested one person.