Third hoax bomb threat in five days has Mumbai cops on high alert

A five-star hotel near the Mumbai airport received a hoax bomb threat, with the purported motive to extort a large sum of money. The Mumbai Police was on high alert again following the bomb threat, on Tuesday. This is the third incident in the last five days.

On Monday, the Hotel Lalit, located near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, received an anonymous phone call, according to an official. Hotel authorities immediately alerted the Sahar Police Station.

The caller reportedly claimed that they had placed at least four bombs inside the hotel premises and demanded an extortion amount of Rs 5 crore to defuse them.

The police lodged a complaint and along with the hotels' security personnel, carried out a comprehensive search of the entire premises but found nothing. The police aren't taking the threats lightly.

It started with the adrift yacht with three AK-56 guns and nearly 250 live rounds of ammunition found at Raigad beach (August 18), followed by WhatsApp messages from a Pakistani number threatening to carry out blasts in Mumbai akin to the 26/11 terror strikes (August 20), and now the threat to the Hotel Lalit.