Terror alert for flights to West

New Delhi: India’s security agencies have warned that terrorists are planning to attack flights going to western countries from the country’s airports.
After receiving this input from intelligence agencies, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has issued a nationwide alert and directed heads of civil aviation security in different parts of the country to mount security preparedness at all the airports.
Besides asking airline operators to be vigilant, the agencies involved in airport security have been directed to carry out “100 per cent search of passengers and manual checking of carry-on baggage”.
The security agencies have also been asked to carry out "secondary security checks at the ladder point of aircraft in respect of all flights from India to western countries,” the alert said.
18/04/10 Manish Tiwari/Hindustan Times

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