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India declares state of security alert at airports
Friday 22/January/2010

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newdelhi//hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net

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Indian Government announced on Friday  security alert at  its airports and on board all Indian aircraft   based on  intelligence reports that  groups linked to al Qaeda are planning  to hijack planes.

Official sources said that the Indian government had issued instructions to carriers to  deploy security guards on board  of their aircraft. Security official in the Ministry of Interior  Yukieh Bansal told reporters: "We think it may be targeting one of our planes and in particularly , those on international flights. " He added: "We issued instructions to our  Security  organs to  enforce rigorously  the measures  to combat Hijacking."