Private airline office receives bomb threat in Pune

A private airline’s office at Pune airport received a bomb threat, following which checks were conducted at the international airport here but nothing suspicious was found, police said on Tuesday.

The airline received an email at 1.25 am on Sunday which said: “Powerful explosive



devices are hidden inside the backpacks placed around the airport and planes. You must evacuate the building urgently…people will die.”

A customer care executive of the airline read the email at around 6.45 am and alerted authorities, an official from Vimantal police station said.