AdvertisementIndia's airlines have received 999 hoax bomb threats this year, according to an Indian official.
He said there were 500 bomb threats in the last two weeks of October alone, but all were hoaxes.
India's airlines have already received 999 hoax bomb threats this year, Murlidhar Mohol, India's deputy civil aviation minister, said on Thursday.
Mohol said that 12 people had been arrested in connection with 256 police complaints filed over hoax bomb threats up until November 14, and that more than 500 threats had been made in the final two weeks of October, more than in the rest of the year combined.
AdvertisementAnother Air India plane flying from Mumbai to New York was diverted midair to New Delhi in October, The Indian Express reported at the time.
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