New Delhi: An engine "misfire" from possibly a diesel vehicle led to a major chaos at Indira Gandhi International Airport in the wee hours of today as the security personnel mistook it as gun shots, thus pressing the panic button.
Sources in the central security agencies said a thorough check up was conducted at the airport since the time the news of a possible terror attack spread like wildfire. An analysis of the statements of some people, who are said to have heard the gunshots, and the sequence of events including examination of close-circuit television footage, the examiners from technical department of security agencies arrived at a conclusion that it could be misfire by a diesel vehicle which had come to drop people at gate number four, used for Air India passengers.
"Sounds were heard by our people deployed at the city side (of the airport) which appeared to them as gun shots," said Udhayan Banerjee, DIG, CISF, which provides airport security. The firing of two gun shots was heard at around 1.15 am near gate no 4, but there was no eyewitness and no cartridge shells were found.
