Mangalore: The security and Watch-and-Ward arrangements at the Mangalore International Airport have been strengthen with additional staff and 4 canine squads have been added to find out bombs if any around the airport as on Thursday, Jan.3, following secret warnings of National intelligence agencies from Jammu-Kashmir. In which stated that efforts are being made Indian Mujahidin (IM) to free their co-founder, Yasin Bhatkal, who is under detention and police grilling, since August 27, 2013, and there is a fear that any aircraft belonging to air India may be hijacked any movement if and when it touches runway or in the mid-air around MIA.

Thus the police are taking care to check passengers at every entry in the airport from the main door up to the aircraft to check up if any dangerous materials are carried by any terrorist or suspicious looking passenger on the floor of airport premises from Thursday.

The MIA director J T Radhakrishna informed the press and the public that all precautions are being taken in the interest of safety of passengers when they alight from the International aircraft from Abroad, or board an international plane to go out of India. He also told that 4 canine squads even from other states of India have been pressed in to service along with their keepers, to find out if any bomb or dangerous weapon is carried by any passenger in any bag inside the airport range.

The security arrangements, he added on an alert will prevail round clock until the emergency situation continues at MIA.