The Jaipur International Airport today received a threat on its official email ID, warning that bombs will be planted at the airport as well as on three airlines.

The mail was sent by “Terrorizers-111 Group” and said: “Do not take this warning lightly”.

In the wake of the threat, airport security personnel, police, bomb disposal and dog squads conducted a search operation but found nothing suspicious.

Jaipur Airport police station’s inspector Motilal Sharma told agencies, “We have conducted the exercise after a bomb threat mail was received at the official email of Jaipur International Airport at around 9.45 a.m. Security agencies were alerted.”

“The police, along with airport security personnel, launched a search operation. The entire airport complex and its surroundings were searched by the bomb disposal squad and dog squad. However, no suspicious thing has been found in the airport premises during the search operation. Further investigations are under progress,” he said.

This is the fourth time in around four months that Jaipur Airport has received a bomb threat.

Earlier, threats were made to blow up the airport on Apr 26 and Feb 16 this year, and Dec 27, 2023. The Apr 26 threat was also on email but turned out to be a hoax.

Sharma told agencies that the prime suspect had been detained in this case but declined to share any further information.

Hoax bomb threat at Goa airport

A similar threat was received by the Dabolim airport in Goa this morning but a search by security agencies found nothing suspicious and all operations are proceeding smoothly, officials said.

Dabolim Airport director SVT Dhanamjaya Rao told agencies that they received the threat in an email in the morning and all security measures were taken.

“No sooner did we receive the email, we alerted all security agencies and checking was done. We have found nothing. Our operations have not been impacted, they are smooth,” Rao said.

He said investigations will be done to know about the sender’s identity.

Along with Jaipur and Goa, many airports, including Varanasi, Chandigarh, and Srinagar have been sent bomb threats.

(Source: IANS)

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