Airport alert for woman bomber
Bengaluru, Jan. 28: The Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) on Thursday was put on high alert after a national news channel received a mail saying that a woman passenger will be travelling with liquid explosives from Bengaluru to Mumbai between January 28 and 29. The news channel, which received the email from one Raheem late Wednesday late night, immediately alerted the city police, which in turn got in touch with the BIA authorities asking them to maintain high alert. The sender of the mail stated that since he was a “law abiding citizen” it was his duty to pass on the information to the police.
Following the alert, security check of passengers, especially women was heightened at the security hall area (SHA) and at the ladder point entry to the aircraft with security personnel refusing to allow any kind of liquid aerosol gels (LAGs) in the hand baggage of passengers including water bottles, perfumes, lotions and even medicinal drops leading to chaos at the airport. There are five explosive trace detectors (ETD) at the Bengaluru International Airport, which can trace around 80 types of liquid explosives.The Central Industrial Security Force, which provides security cover to the BIA, has deployed additional women security staff to screen passengers on Friday and Saturday.
“Some women passengers picked up a fight with the women staff and objected when they emptied their handbags of lotions and perfumes. We asked them to cooperate with the security in the wake of the high alert. We also advised them to keep their toiletries in the registered baggage,” said a senior security officer.
Bala Chauhan
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