Security personnel at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here went into a tizzy on Wednesday after receiving three phone calls threatening to blow up the airport. Immediately after receiving the first two calls, a bomb squad, sniffer dogs along with a CISF team were pressed into action and the airport was thoroughly screened through the night, a senior police officer said. He almost pleaded that a probe be launched quickly,” a top officer of Kolkata police told PTI. This morning, another call was made to the Bidhannagar police commissionerate that a bomb was planted inside a cargo aircraft and “it’ll go off any moment”, a senior officer said. “(The) Bomb squad, sniffer dogs are checking the airport while CISF personnel are carrying out special scrutiny of the entire place,” he said.

Source: Hindustan Times September 07, 2016 08:03 UTC