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Letter threatens to disrupt Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

Special Correspondent


“It states that Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists are in Chennai”


CHENNAI: The Air India office on Monday received a letter threatening to disrupt the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at the Chennai Trade Centre in Nandambakkam.

Written in Tamil, it had the address of a travel agency at Karaikal. It stated that Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists were in Chennai.

Ten suicide bombers from the LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamath Ud Dawa had also come to disrupt the conference, in which President Prathiba Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi are participating.

The letter warned that 10 car bombs had been sneaked into Chennai and that on the day of the conference, suicide bombers would strike.

They would lie in wait near the conference venue armed with AK-300-type weapons. The letter was addressed to the Air India building on Rukmani Lakshmipathi Salai, Egmore.

Its copies have been circulated to agencies such as the CISF, BCAS, AAI and State police.

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