Indian airports maintain state of alert against threat of attacks
The main airports in India continued this Saturday in a state of alert against the threat of attacks, ten days after the violent attacks against Muslims Mumbai that left 172 dead, official sources announced.
Authorities said it received an email warning of the possibility of attacks against the Indian air bases, which include the taking of hostages and hijacking of airplanes.
The message referred to the day on December 6, 2008, when the 16th anniversary of the destruction of a mosque in northern India by Hindu extremists, action that triggered a dreadful wave of religious violence.
“Security is at its highest level for some time, but after the attacks in Mumbai, all airports in western India and all international airports of the country are in a state of maximum alert,” especially those in the capital New Delhi , From Bangalore (south) and Madras (southeast), said Mushmi CHAKRAVARTY, spokesman of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
The control of security from boarding in India is already intense a few years ago, but now has been strengthened “to avoid any problem,” said a police officer at the airport in New Delhi.