South Indian airports to remain in security blanket after 'Al Qaeda threat'

Airports across India will remain on high security alert till intelligence agencies rule out any threat following an anonymous warning that Al Qaeda was targeting airports in Tamil Nadu and Kerala states, the government said Thursday.
The civil aviation ministry sounded the countrywide alert after the Trichy airport staff found Wednesday an anonymous letter, written in the Tamil language, warning of possible Al Qaeda strikes, Ajay Prasad, secretary in the ministry, said Thursday.
'The letter said that Al Qaeda would be targeting airports in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. We have strengthened the security measures and are not taking any chances,' Prasad told reporters here.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which provides security to all civilian airports, had earlier said the specific threat was directed at seven of the airports in the country's south: Trichy, Madurai, Chennai, Coimbatore (all in Tamil Nadu) and Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode (all in Kerala).
Prasad said the handwritten letter was found in an envelop in a room under construction at the Trichy airport.
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