Hoax bomb threat calls ground 7 Indian flights within span of hours

Seven Indian flights received bomb threats on Tuesday after fake bomb threat calls, and two of them made emergency landings. The Delhi-Chicago Air India flight, the Jaipur-Bengaluru Air India Express, the Dammam-Lucknow IndiGo flight, the Darbhanga-Mumbai SpiceJet flight, the Siliguri-Bengaluru Akasa Air flight, an Alliance Air Amritsar-Dehradun-Delhi flight and an Air India Express flight from Madurai to Singapore were the seven flights that got bomb threats.

An X handle issued threats to…