Kolkata: Man Shouts 'Bomb' On London-Bound Qatar Airways Flight, Detained

Kolkata: Man Shouts 'Bomb' On London-Bound Qatar Airways Flight, Detained

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) stationed at the airport was immediately alarmed and the plane was evacuated.

Aritra SinghaUpdated: Tuesday, June 06, 2023, 09:59 PM IST
Kolkata: Man Shouts 'Bomb' On London-Bound Qatar Airways Flight, Detained
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Kolkata: All 541 passengers from a London-bound aircraft of Qatar Airways via Doha were brought down at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport in Kolkata in the wee hours of Tuesday after a man shouted that there is a bomb in the aircraft.

The incident took place at 3.29 am on Tuesday and airport officials immediately informed the CISF and after all the passengers were out of the plane a complete inspection was made of the plane by police and sniffer dogs.

After the person who shouted about the bomb was detained by CISF, he said that someone else in the flight had informed him about the bomb present in the plane.

During the interrogation the police thought that the person must have psychosis-related disorder and the airport police station had called the father of the detained person, after which it was learnt that the person is undergoing treatment of mental illness.