All Clear After Chennai, Jaipur Airports Among 40 That Got Bomb Threat Mails

Early this morning Chennai's Kamaraj International Airport was sent an e-mail about a bomb on a Dubai-bound Emirates flight scheduled to leave at 4 am.

Five major airports - Chennai and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, Patna in Bihar, Vadodara in Gujarat, and Jaipur in Rajasthan - were among several that received bomb warning e-mails - that were all found to be hoaxes - on Tuesday. These follow similar threats to schools, colleges, and hospitals in recent weeks, including letters to around 150 educational institutions in the national capital region last month.

Sources told NDTV as many as 40 airports may have received bomb threat e-mails today. Fortunately, no incident has been reported, and the CISF, or Central Industrial Security Force, which handles airport security, has indicated it receives several such threats, most of which are not considered serious. 

In the last seven days alone there have been bomb threats at a medical facility in Chandigarh, museums in Delhi, a hospital in Maharashtra's Thane, and a Dubai-bound flight from Delhi airport.