Airports put on high alert following hijack threat
December 09, 2006 00:55 IST, Rediff.com
A high alert has been sounded in airports across the country following intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based terrorists could hijack an aircraft to Bangladesh to seek the release of Mohammed Afzal Guru.
Afzal has been sentenced to death in the Parliament attack case.
Intelligence agencies have conveyed this to Bureau of Civil Aviation and Airport security, which in turn put all the airports on alert, sources said late on Friday.
They said the plane could be taken to Bangladesh to avoid international focus on Pakistan.
A high alert has been sounded in airports across the country following intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based terrorists could hijack an aircraft to Bangladesh to seek the release of Mohammed Afzal Guru.
Afzal has been sentenced to death in the Parliament attack case.
Intelligence agencies have conveyed this to Bureau of Civil Aviation and Airport security, which in turn put all the airports on alert, sources said late on Friday.
They said the plane could be taken to Bangladesh to avoid international focus on Pakistan.
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