Mumbai International airport strengthens security after bomb hoax alert on IndiGo flight

ALERT air passengers! Mumbai International airport strengthens security after bomb hoax alert on IndiGo flight, reports ANI.

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Have a flight to catch via Mumbai International airport, then stay ALERT passengers! Reach airport way before your scheduled flight time as earlier today Mumbai International airport received a warning about a bomb being placed on an IndiGo aircraft. While the warning turned out to be hoax, security agencies have been put on alert after an email was received by the officials claiming a bomb threat in one of the aircrafts'. On Saturday night, an email was received at the Mumbai airport, in which it was written that a bomb had been planted in Indigo flight number 6E 6045, due to which security has been beefed up at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. 

"On Saturday night, an email was received at the Mumbai airport, in which it was written that a bomb had been planted in Indigo flight number 6E 6045," an official said. This flight was to take off from Mumbai and land at Ahmedabad. It was checked after the email, but nothing was found on the flight, the Mumbai police said. However, the flight was delayed. Security agencies are investigating the matter. 

A similar incident took place in August, where a drunk man made a hoax bomb threat call to the airport officials to stop Chennai-Dubai IndiGo flight from flying. The man took this step to stop his family members from travelling out of the country who were travelling via this aircraft.

The city resident wanted to prevent two of his family members from flying to Dubai and made the threat call to the city police control room, prompting the security agencies to launch a full-scale search inside the Indigo flight that was originally scheduled to depart at 7.20 am on Saturday (August 27).

(With inputs from ANI)