High alert at Srinagar airport as Indigo flight receives bomb threat

SRINAGAR: An hoax call about a possible bomb threat was received at Srinagar International Airport on Tuesday, officials said. The security grid at Srinagar International Airport on Tuesday went on high alert mode, officials added. A call was received at the Srinagar airport about a bomb in the Indigo flight that had arrived here from Mumbai, as per the officials.
The authorities carried out a thorough search of the flight which was scheduled to take off for Delhi via Jammu at around 5.20 pm.
"However, it turned out to be a hoax," a senior official of Airport Authority of India here said.
The official said the hoax call did not affect the flight operations.