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Jodhpur airport briefly placed on lockdown after bomb scare on Air India flight
October 1, 2018
6 people detained for questioning
3 later released; others remain under custody
Operations at the airport were briefly suspended
The Jodhpur airport was put on partial lockdown following a bomb scare on an Air India Mumbai-Jodhpur flight.
The lockdown was imposed after authorities at the airport received a threat of a bomb being present on Air India Flight 645, a Mumbai-Jodhpur service, that was to reach the city.
Security personnel were immediately alerted and commandos from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which is tasked with civil aviation security in India, boarded the plane to conduct search operations.
Flight operations were temporarily suspended and a siege was laid around the airport with dog squads, police teams and CISF personnel launching a massive search operation.
Six passengers onboard the flight were initially taken into custody by the CISF. Three of them were later released while the remaining three are still under custody and are being interrogated, as of last updating this report.
