Chennai: A phone call made directly to the Airport Director’s office, offering information about the infiltration of 10 suicide bombers from Pakistan into Tamil Nadu, caused a security beef-up at the city airport. The only reason that it was patched through to the man in charge of the Chennai Airport was because the caller identified himself as an ‘officer with the Central Intelligence Agency’.
The board-line routed the call to the APD’s office in Airports Authority of India’s (AAI) administrative building in Meenambakkam, at 10.30 am. “The called identified himself as Stephen attached to a Central Intelligence Agency or department, calling from Bangalore. He said that they had information that 10 Pakistani suicide bombers had entered Tamil Nadu and were heading for Chennai Airport. Immediately after that, he hung up,” said an official at the airport.
Though bomb hoaxes to the airport have been commonplace, the AAI administration informed the Chief Security Officer who alerted both the TN Police and the CISF to step up security.
26/08/14 New Indian Express
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The board-line routed the call to the APD’s office in Airports Authority of India’s (AAI) administrative building in Meenambakkam, at 10.30 am. “The called identified himself as Stephen attached to a Central Intelligence Agency or department, calling from Bangalore. He said that they had information that 10 Pakistani suicide bombers had entered Tamil Nadu and were heading for Chennai Airport. Immediately after that, he hung up,” said an official at the airport.
Though bomb hoaxes to the airport have been commonplace, the AAI administration informed the Chief Security Officer who alerted both the TN Police and the CISF to step up security.
26/08/14 New Indian Express
