Cops keep a vigil at the entrance of the cargo at the IGI Airport in New Delhi. a tribune Photo
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 29
A radiation scare at the Indira Gandhi International Airport forced suspension of cargo operations at one of the terminals early in the morning. However, nuclear regulator and Delhi authorities later clarified that there was no leak of radioactive substance from a consignment unloaded from a Turkish Airlines plane.
It later emerged that an "organic liquid" from another consignment had spilled over the cargo containing nuclear medicine and it was initially thought that the leakage was from that package.
The area was cordoned off after the news of the radioactive material leakage emerged. Operations at Celebi Delhi Cargo Terminal Management India Private Limited — one of the two cargo terminals of the airport where the incident took place — were temporarily suspended.
Teams of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) were rushed to the spot. A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was also summoned.
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