The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) in Mumbai has been put on high alert after the airport authorities received a terror threat last night.
According to the police, the airport manager received a phone call late last night informing that the domestic and international terminals and the Taj Hotel could be attacked.
The security personnel said that the person who made the call identified himself as Vishesh Kumar. Kumar told the control room that he had overheard a few people discussing a terror plot at the aiport. He heard that 16 vehicles loaded with explosives would be used to carry out the terror attack at domestic terminal, international terminal and the Taj Hotel between 9am and 10am.
Bomb threat assessment committee of CSIA has termed the call as ‘specific threat’ and bomb squad was deployed after the call and a massive search-cum-screening exercise was also taken up. The police has traced the call but refused to divulge any details.
The threat comes a day before 12 men convicted for the 2006 serial train blasts in Mumbai are sentenced on Wednesday. The city airport has received such threats in the recent past and Taj Hotel was attacked in which 166 people were killed in 2008.