19-06-2025
Hyderabad airport receives hoax bomb threat; conduct anti-sabotage checks, email linked to ‘Operation Polo'
Hyderabad's airport and Begumpet airport underwent thorough anti-sabotage checks by bomb disposal squads
HYDERABAD: Bomb disposal squads conducted anti-sabotage checks at Hyderabad airport and Begumpet airport on Wednesday after receiving an email warning about IEDs allegedly planted at an airport in city.
Following a thorough checks at both locations, the email was declared hoax.
At 6:39 am, GMR airport's customer-support mailbox received an email from an individual identifying as Andimithu Rasa.
The email, with references to 'Operation Polo' and the recent arrest of political commentator Savukku Shankar by Tamil Nadu police, claimed that four bombs were planted aboard a flight and another 4 inside RGIA terminal building.
