About 41 Airports Across India Get Hoax Bomb Threat On E-Mail

About fortyone airports, including in Chennai, Patna and Jaipur, received bomb threat emails on Tuesday, prompting authorities to scramble contingency measures and carry out anti-sabotage checks that lasted hours, and each of them was found to be a hoax, official sources said.

• EMAILS WERE RECEIVED AROUND 12.40 PM FROM ID [e-mail]

Security was beefed up as agencies swept the terminals after the e-mails were received around 12.40 pm from the ID [e-mail].

The airports in Chennai, Patna, Nagpur, Jaipur, Vadodara, Coimbatore and Jabalpur were among those that received the e-mail threats.

An online group called “KNR” is suspected to be behind these hoax threat e-mails. The group reportedly issued similar e-mails to several schools in the Delhi-National Capital Region on May 1, the sources said. The emails received by the airports carried almost the identical message: “Hello, there are explosives hidden in the Airport. The bombs will soon explode. You will all die.”