Kochi: Two flights at Kochi's Nedumbassery Airport were targeted with hoax bomb threats today. The threats, which the security department received via Twitter, arrived after both Air India's Kochi-Dammam and Akasa Air's Kochi-Mumbai flights had already taken off.

A bomb threat email received by Belagavi airport at Sambra was declared a hoax after thorough checks by police, including dog and bomb squads, revealed nothing suspicious. An investigation to identify the sender is underway,

Panic gripped authorities after IndiGo officials received a tweet regarding a bomb in the flight, following which they immediately alerted the airport security