A full security drill was carried out at the Mumbai Airport on Thursday morning after an airport official received two phone calls that a bomb was kept in one of the store rooms of the under-construction terminal 1C.
According to the airport officials, an employee of engineering company Larsen & Toubro (L&T), which is building the airport’s new integrated terminal, received anonymous call twice within a span of half an hour and was told that a bomb was kept in the under-construction building.
“The call was made from two different PCOs within half hour following which we informed the CISF and the bomb disposal unit,” said an airport spokesperson. The first call was received at 8:25 am.
“We carried out the entire security drill and no bomb was found in the premises,” said Jitendra Singh Negi, CISF Commandant, Mumbai Airport. “Investigations are on and the police are trying to trace the caller,” he added.
On Wednesday, an anonymous call was made to the call centre of Indigo Airlines threatening of a bomb in its Delhi-Kolkata flight. The threat eventually turned out to be a hoax.
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