International desk: Bomb attacks have been threatened on Wednesday (October 16) on two flights of Akasa Air bound for Bengaluru and Indigo bound for Delhi. 12 flights received such threats in three days.

An Akasa Air spokesperson said the threatened flight was QP 1335. The flight had 177 passengers including three children, seven crew members. Later the flight returned to Delhi.

Meanwhile, IndiGo Flight 6E651 en route from Mumbai to Delhi diverted to Ahmedabad following a similar threat. An IndiGo spokesperson said the aircraft was evacuated and all passengers were evacuated safely.

Besides, other flights which have received such threats are Air India's Delhi-Chicago flight, Indigo's Dammam-Lucknow, Air India Express' Ayodhya-Bengaluru, SpiceJet's Darbhanga to Mumbai (SG116), Akasa Air's Bagdora to Bengaluru (QP1373), Alliance Air's Amritsar-Dehradun-Delhi (9I650) and Air India Express from Madurai to Singapore (IX684).

Last Monday (October 14), two IndiGo flights and one Air India flight received such threats. Among them, Air India's flight was from Mumbai to New York's JFK airport and IndiGo's two flights were to Muscat and Jeddah.

The Standing Committee of the Parliament held a meeting on these incidents at 11 am. Earlier, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu held a meeting with his ministry and DGCA officials. NDTV quoted sources as saying that several criminals have been identified. The dark web (the dark world of the internet) is under surveillance.