Bajpe airport on ‘high alert’

Mangalore: The security staff at Mangalore Airport has been put on alert following serial bomb blasts at Bangalore on Friday, according to M R Vasudeva, director of the airport.
Apart from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the staff of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had also been alerted, he said.
The police maintained that a high alert had been sounded in the district and security had been tightened at strategic locations.
Dakshina Kannada unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has condemned the serial blasts at Bangalore on Friday.
K Monappa Bhandary, president of the unit, said in a press releae here that it was an attempt to disturb peace and destabilise the Government in the State.
State governments were finding it difficult to control terrorism as the UPA Government in 2004 repealed the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 implemented by the NDA Government, he said.
Bhandary said that the Union Government should ban organisations sponsoring terrorism and take legal action against the guilty. The State Government too should take steps to arrest the persons behind the serial blasts in Bangalore, he added.
27/07/08 Udayavani

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Categories: Airports Jul 2008, Safety Jul 2008