Kochi airport gets bomb threat, turns out to be hoax

Kochi airport receives bomb threat, later confirmed as hoax amid heightened security concerns post-plane crash.

The Kochi international airport received a bomb threat on Friday morning (June 13, 2025). The threat was later found to be a hoax.

The airport’s public relations officer received an e-mail threatening a bomb blast. A pipe bomb blast was threatened at Anna University and the Kochi airport to “commemorate the unfair hanging of Afsal Guru,” according to the mail.

Immediately, the airport convened a meeting of its Bomb Threat Assessment Committee, comprising multiple agencies.

The meeting, however, found the threat to be “non-specific” and dismissed it.

Incidentally, the airport had received a similar hoax earlier this year.

The threat on Friday assumed added significance in the wake of the plane crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday.