Tiruchi: The Tiruchi International Airport has been brought under heightened security cover in connection with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s brief stopover on Friday prior to leaving for Tirumayam to inaugurate the power plant piping unit of the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.
A thick security blanket has been thrown inside the airport and on its outer periphery with surveillance and anti-sabotage teams deployed as part of the detailed security arrangement.
A team from the elite Special Protection Guard (SPG) guarding the Prime Minister is camping here overseeing the security measures put in place in and around the airport.
Four Indian Air Force helicopters are stationed at the Tiruchi airport and the Prime Minister will fly to Tirumayam in one of them upon his arrival here from New Delhi.
Police sources told The Hindu that the Prime Minister will arrive at Tiruchi at around 11.05 a.m. from New Delhi by a special aircraft and leave for Tirumayam immediately in a helicopter.
02/08/13 R Rajaram/The Hindu
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A thick security blanket has been thrown inside the airport and on its outer periphery with surveillance and anti-sabotage teams deployed as part of the detailed security arrangement.
A team from the elite Special Protection Guard (SPG) guarding the Prime Minister is camping here overseeing the security measures put in place in and around the airport.
Four Indian Air Force helicopters are stationed at the Tiruchi airport and the Prime Minister will fly to Tirumayam in one of them upon his arrival here from New Delhi.
Police sources told The Hindu that the Prime Minister will arrive at Tiruchi at around 11.05 a.m. from New Delhi by a special aircraft and leave for Tirumayam immediately in a helicopter.
02/08/13 R Rajaram/The Hindu
