- Fake explosives packed into a mobile phone sparked the bomb alert in India
- Security staff discovered device while screening 26-year-old travelling to Dubai
- An officer spotted the suspicious scan and found a ‘clay-like substance’ inside
Fake explosives packed into a mobile phone today sparked a bomb alert at India’s southern Mangalore Airport.
Security staff discovered the device while screening a 26-year-old travelling to Dubai. He has been identified only as ‘M. Mohammed’.
An officer spotted the suspicious scan and found a ‘clay-like substance’ inside the mobile phone power bank.
The airport’s dog squad gave ‘mixed signals’ after sniffing the bag but an explosive trace test ultimately confirmed that it was not a viable device.
An officer spotted the suspicious scan and found a ‘clay-like substance’ inside the mobile phone power bank
The suspect device sparked a bomb alert at Mangalore Airport in India, pictured
Airline IndiGoo had earlier tweeted: ‘IndiGo’s alert security screener staff at Mangalore caught a suspect carrying an alleged cellphone bomb today.
‘The matter has been reported to the local police. Since it is a sensitive security matter we have nothing more to share.’
Police across the globe are on high alert for suspect devices after British spies uncovered a plot by terrorists to set off a home-made mobile phone bomb in the run-up to Christmas last year.
It came just months after ISIS jihadis allegedly attempted to smuggle a handheld device onto an Etihad jet in Australia in a terrifying bid to blow hundreds of innocent passengers out of the sky during a flight to the Middle East.
Airline IndiGoo had earlier tweeted: ‘IndiGo’s alert security screener staff at Mangalore caught a suspect carrying an alleged cellphone bomb today’
The alleged plot to blow up the plane after it left Sydney is reported to have been thwarted by airport screening officers.
Police alleged that the components of the bomb had already been flown into Australia from Turkey as air cargo and assembled in Sydney under direction from a senior ISIS figure.