Mumbai airport on high alert following terror threat to Air India from Karachi number

Mumbai airport has been put on high alert following three calls of terror threats received by Air India's call center. The calls received which started on Friday have been made from Pakistan. 

According to the airport security sources, the first call was received on Friday evening, wherein a women said that an Air India plane will be hijacked using an AK-47 gun, before cutting the call. The intimation regarding the threat call was accordingly made to the security agencies. 

Sources said that on Saturday, the airline's call centre received a few more calls from a Karachi number. However, this time the caller claimed to be a gangster and said that the Air India flight will be blown up with explosives.

In all the incidents, the threat calls were non-specific as the caller did not mention any particular flight, route or destination, sources said 

"Since the threat was non-specific and the call was related to Air India, all flights of the airline were thoroughly checked. But so far nothing unusual was found," said a CISF official.

An Air India spokesperson said, "We have referred the matter to the local police, who are now investigating the case".