A high alert has been sounded in the Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Kochi airports following threat of a possible terror attack on Air India flights. At Kochi in Kerala, a bomb disposal squad is on stand-by at the airport, along with Anti-Hijacking Unit of the Central Industrial Security Force.

Kochi Airport Director A K C Nair told PTI that they received information from Kolkata that there is a threat to the Air India flight on the Mumbai-Kochi sector on October 25 and Ahmedabad-Mumbai sector tonight. He said a high-level meeting was convened this morning by CISF DIG Anand Mohan, who arrived Kochi from Chennai, to review the security at the airport. The Director of Airports Authority of India, Kolkata, had received an anonymous call last night stating that AI flights on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai and Mumbai-Kochi sector will be sabotaged, airport sources said.

The information had been handed over to police and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security and as per their directions security has been tightened at the airport, the sources said. A Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad, Quick Response team, CISF and police are keeping a constant vigil at the airport. He said the source of the letter has not been traced yet and details are being investigated, but security has been tightened to prevent any form of disruption.