Srinagar airport goes on high alert as Indigo flight receives bomb threat

Srinagar, Oct 22: The security grid at Srinagar International Airport on Tuesday went on high alert mode after a hoax call about a possible bomb threat, officials said.

The officials said a call was received at the Srinagar airport about a bomb in the Indigo flight that had arrived here from Mumbai.

The authorities carried out a thorough search of the flight which was scheduled to take off for Delhi via Jammu at around 5:20 pm.

"However, it turned out to be a hoax," a senior official of the Airport Authority of India here said.

The official said the hoax call did not affect the flight operations.