GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 14th Oct. Officials at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) on Thursday night received a threatening email warning of a bomb on a flight from Moscow to Delhi.
The flight is being checked at Indira Gandhi International Airport.
The flight was scheduled to arrive in Delhi at 3:20 a.m. from Moscow, according to police.
“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.
The flight’s 386 passengers and 16 crew members were all deboarded. The situation is being looked into.
This is not the first time something like this has happened.
On September 10, the airport received a bomb threat call for a London-bound Air India flight, and 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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