A high alert has been sounded in Hyderabad and at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad in the wake of the busting of an ISIS module in Hyderabad and the terrorist attack in the Istanbul airport in Turkey on Wednesday.
The government deployed a large number of the elite Octopus personnel at the national and international terminals in the airport. Heavy contingents of CISF and CRPF personnel and security forces were also deployed at the main roads leading to the airport as a precautionary measure.
All the vehicles entering the airport are being thoroughly checked. The RGIA authorities have cancelled all kinds of entry passes, and entry of visitors has been banned. The officials also asked all the air travelers to carry ID cards along with their air tickets.
Security has also been tightened all over the city in the wake of the ISIS terror module getting busted. The police are thoroughly checking people at the busy shopping malls. They have also set up roadblocks and are searching vehicles in Madhapur and Gachibowli, the two IT clusters housing several multinational technology giants.
The Cyberabad police also conducted searches at hotels, lodges, shopping malls and other public places. The search operations were being carried out in the wake of reports that IS sympathisers were plotting bomb attacks and indiscriminate firing at crowded places.
The high alert will be in force till July 6.
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