Several airports across India receive bomb threat emails, all found to be hoax

NEW DELHI: Several airports across India, including Patna , Coimbatore and Jaipur, received bomb threat emails on Tuesday causing flight delays. The security has been heightened in view of the threat mails.Officials have revealed that bomb threats were sent to 41 airports across India, all of which were found to be hoax.In the morning, a Dubai-bound flight scheduled to take off from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) was delayed after the airport authority received a bomb threat email.Then, a Dubai-bound Emirates flight was delayed by around two hours after a bomb threat email was received at the Chennai airport. Passengers had not boarded the plane scheduled to leave at 9.50am.Meanwhile, an unidentified person sent a bomb threat email to the Coimbatore international airport. A bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) team, along with a sniffer dog squad from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), conducted a search of the airport premises and declared the bomb threat a hoax.The email sender stated that “bombs are planted at the airport, and they may explode anytime.” "We are in an alert mode, and we have taken all precautions. It was not a specific threat email. However, we have intensified the security at the airport," said Coimbatore International Airport director S Senthil Valavan.He added that the flight movements were not affected due to the hoax threat emails.Later, Patna airport also received a threat. Airport director said that the investigations were ongoing and further details are awaited.Through checking was conducted by security agencies at Jaipur airport as it also reported receiving a threat. However, after the search, police said, "The airport was thoroughly checked, but nothing suspicious has been found so far."Security was heightened at Vadodara airport as well after airport authorities received a bomb threat in the afternoon.