More
    HomeHomeMail warning of suspects flying to Lanka turns out to be hoax...

    Mail warning of suspects flying to Lanka turns out to be hoax | India News – The Times of India

    Published on

    spot_img


    CHENNAI: The airport here was on high alert Saturday after a mail received by Chennai airport authorities claimed that terror suspects connected to the Pahalgam massacre were boarding a SriLankan Airlines morning flight to Colombo.
    Sources said Chennai airport authorities received the email at around 10.30am. Officials swung into action but the flight had departed at 9.55am. Even as security was tightened at Chennai airport, the airline concerned was alerted. Sri Lankan security forces were also informed about the mail and the aircraft was subjected to comprehensive searches upon landing in Colombo at around noon.
    Later, Sri Lankan forces declared the alert a hoax as there were no passengers with suspicious history or antecedents on the flight. Airport sources said standard operating procedure was initiated as soon as the mail was noticed.
    SriLankan Airlines, in a note, confirmed that the flight had been searched on landing in coordination with local authorities and that the aircraft had been cleared for further operations. However, the aircraft’s next scheduled journey, to Singapore, was delayed due to the searches.





    Source link

    Latest articles

    IOC creates panel to review female issues in Olympic sports

    The names of experts appointed to an Olympic panel looking at female gender...

    ‘Solutions not hurdles’: UP accelerates strategy to achieve $1 trillion economy vision; industrial growth in focus | India News – The Times of India

    Alok Kumar, additional chief secretary (infrastructure & industrial development) of Uttar...

    Stopped seven wars in seven months: Trump to Republican lawmakers at dinner

    US President Donald Trump on Friday hailed that his administration has accomplished what...

    ‘Democrat hoax’: Was Trump an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein? Trump aide Mike Johnson’s startling claim – The Times of India

    Donald Trump; Mike Johnson House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday claimed, in...

    More like this

    IOC creates panel to review female issues in Olympic sports

    The names of experts appointed to an Olympic panel looking at female gender...

    ‘Solutions not hurdles’: UP accelerates strategy to achieve $1 trillion economy vision; industrial growth in focus | India News – The Times of India

    Alok Kumar, additional chief secretary (infrastructure & industrial development) of Uttar...

    Stopped seven wars in seven months: Trump to Republican lawmakers at dinner

    US President Donald Trump on Friday hailed that his administration has accomplished what...