Bengaluru airport receives hoax bomb threat call
Bengaluru: Bengaluru Police early on Friday received a hoax bomb threat call at Kempe Gowda International Airport.
"The Airport police control room recorded a fake bomb threat call by an unknown person. Central Industrial Security Force and police conducted a thorough investigation at the airport till 0700 hours," Airport authorities stated.
The police said an unidentified person made a bomb threat call to police control room at 0300 hours.
Acting on the threat call, the police control room informed the airport police station who conducted a 2-hour search on the premises with bomb-disposal squad, but it did not find anything.
"We received information about a bomb and are checking the international airport thoroughly with CISF," Northeast DCP Anoop Shetty said.
The police are investigating the matter.
(With UNI inputs)
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