RGIA receives hoax bomb call from unidentified caller in Hyderabad

As per available information, the unidentified caller made the call to the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate Control Room. On receiving the message, the call centre staff informed the airport security officials who alerted the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and local RGIA police

Hyderabad: Panic prevailed for a while at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad on Thursday after a person made a phone call and informed that a bomb was planted at the airport premises.

As per available information, the unidentified caller made the call to the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate Control Room. On receiving the message, the call centre staff informed the airport security officials who alerted the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and local RGIA police.

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The anti-bomb squads conducted a thorough search of the airport premises and later declared it as a hoax.

A case was registered and efforts started to track the person who made the phone call.

Officials have traced the call to Kamareddy district.