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41 airports across India get hoax bomb threat on email

The emails received by the airports carried almost the identical message: “Hello, there are explosives hidden in the airport. The bombs will soon explode. You will all die"
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New Delhi, June 18

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Forty-one airports in the country received bomb threat emails on Tuesday and each of them was declared a hoax following anti-sabotage checks by security agencies that lasted for hours, official sources said.

The emails were received at the airports around 12.40 pm from the email id exhumedyou888@gmail.com. The airports scrambled contingency measures, carried out anti-sabotage checks and swept the terminals following the respective Bomb Threat Assessment Committee recommendations, the sources said.

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An online group called “KNR” is suspected to be behind these hoax threat emails. The group reportedly issued similar emails to several schools in the Delhi-NCR on May 1, they said.

The emails received by the airports carried almost the identical message: “Hello, there are explosives hidden in the airport. The bombs will soon explode. You will all die.”

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All the airports reported the threat to be a hoax and passenger movements were kept unhindered to the best of the capacities, the sources said.

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