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A plane from Moscow carrying 400 people made an emergency landing in Delhi on Friday following a bomb threat, according to officials.
The Aeroflot aircraft operating flight SU 232 landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport at 2.48 am. The passengers and crew were evacuated safely, they said.
According to the police, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) received an e-mail warning of bombs on the flight on Thursday night.
As the flight landed, its 386 passengers and 14 crew members were immediately evacuated, a senior police official said.
The flight was checked and nothing has been found so far, the official said, adding that the aircraft has been isolated.
Full emergency was declared for the landing of the Boeing 777 aircraft that was being operated by Russian carrier Aeroflot, the official added.
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The plane landed safely and passengers disembarked through the emergency exitThere have been at least two incidents of alleged bomb threat on flights in the last few weeks.
On October 3, the Indian Air Force had scrambled its fighter jets after receiving information of a bomb scare on a China-bound Iranian civilian plane that was flying over the Indian airspace. The aircraft did not land in India and later landed safely in China.
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