Security has been beefed up at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) after the airport authorities received an email about a bomb scare, police said on Saturday.
Following the threat received on April 29, the CISF and the police got into multiple levels of security sweeps all over the airport.
A First Information Report has been registered in Bajpe police station stating that a certain group identifying itself as Terrorisers 111′ had sent the emails. The FIR quoting the email has stated that “there are explosives placed in three places in the airport and we expect large scale bloodshed will happen. This warning and threat should not be taken lightly.”
