Call centre hoax triggers panic

security alert at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, but the threat turned out to be a hoax, reports India Today.

The call centre of the national carrier received the call at around 7pm, in which the caller said a bomb would be set off.

According to IBN Live, a senior CISF official said the call was “not specific” as to whether somebody was targeting a plane or the airport.

“The caller did not say where the bomb will be exploded”, the official said. A spokesman of Delhi International Airport later said a three-member threat assessment committee held a meeting following the phone call and concluded that since the threat was not specific, the call was a hoax.

But the Gurgaon police commissioner said he was not aware of any such call. “We haven't got any information from Delhi Police so far. But if the call has been made from Gurgaon, we will trace the caller,” police commissioner SS Deswal said, reveals Hindustan Times.