Kochi: Threat of a bomb explosion or a possible suicide attack on an Air India flight from Mumbai sparked an alert in Kochi. Authorities beefed up security at the international airport on Friday.
Airport Director A K C Nair said that they received information from Kolkata that there is a threat to the AI flight on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai sector on the night of October 24 and on the Mumbai-Kochi sector on October 25 .
“There was a threat of bomb attack or bomb suicide attack,” he said.
A high-level meeting was convened this morning by CISF DIG Anand Mohan, who arrived in Kochi from Chennai, to review the security at the airport.
The Director of Airports Authority of India, Kolkata, received an anonymous call on Thursday night stating that AI flights on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai and Mumbai-Kochi sector will be ‘sabotaged’, airport sources said.
The information had been handed over to police and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security and as per their directions security has been tightened at the airport, the sources said.
A Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad, Quick Response team, CISF and police are keeping a constant vigil at the airport. Security at the Airport perimeter entrance has also been further tightened.