6 Bengaluru-bound flights receive bomb threats, police term them as ‘non-specific’ | Business News
A bomb threat message was sent to six Bengaluru-bound IndiGo flights on Sunday through an anonymous account on X, claiming there were two bombers on each plane, taking the number of such threats to nearly 200 in a week.
The bomb threat messages were received at the Bengaluru airport command centre via an anonymous account on X, which said there were 12 bombers on six IndiGo flights.
A police officer said the threats were deemed ‘non-specific’. “The airlines have not filed any formal complaint but they went ahead with an internal meeting and decided that the threats were non-specific. No searches were initiated,” the officer added.
In the last week, this is the second bomb threat posted on X concerning Bengaluru airport and city-bound flights. On October 15, an X user with the username @schizobomber777 posted a bomb threat message from his handle.
On Sunday, at least 24 flights, including those of IndiGo, received threats, forcing authorities to divert one and declare emergencies on a few. Sources said most of the threats received by airlines on Sunday came through an anonymous and unverified account —@schizophreniqqq— on X. X later suspended the account.
Last week, the Bengaluru police arrested a man from Darjeeling in West Bengal after he issued bomb threats to three engineering colleges in the city.
Dipanjan Mitra was arrested for sending threatening emails to three prominent engineering colleges in Bengaluru — Bangalore Institute of Technology (BIT), BMS College of Engineering, and M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology on October 4. The email claimed that he had planted hydrogen-based IEDs.
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Unemployed since 2012, Mitra is a BCom graduate and has completed multiple certification courses in computer science, said a police officer. “He is mentally disturbed. He is involved in 10 other similar cases which are also under investigation,” added the police officer.
