Bomb scare on Delhi-bound flight, IGI airport on alert
1 min read . Updated: 14 Oct 2022, 09:25 AM IST
Premium- A call about a bomb in the flight coming from Moscow to Delhi was received last night
A threatening email warning of a bomb in the flight coming from Moscow to Delhi was received last night at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) on Thursday night.
Following the email, the security agencies were put on alert.
The flight landed in Delhi at around 3.20 am from Moscow and is being checked, according to a report by the ANI news agency.
All passengers and crew members have deboarded.
"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 said.
Total of 386 passengers and 16 crew members were deboarded from the flight.
The matter is being investigated.
This is not the first time such an incident has occurred.
On September 10, a bomb threat call for a London-bound Air India flight was received at the airport after that security agencies were 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 said.
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