Terrorists may strike airports at peak hours: CISF

New Delhi, March 08: Terrorists may try to attack the airports at peak hours so that they are able to inflict “maximum damage”, the Central Industrial Security Force(CISF) warned today, pointing to changing strategies.

“They (terrorists) may now try to attack the airports at peak hours from the frontal side so that they are able to inflict maximum damage… we keep on taking all these factors into our planning and it is for this reason we have got deployed on the city side at bigger airports,” CISF Additional Director General (Airport sector) M S Bali told reporters.

Bali said security measures are changed and enhanced as aviation security is a “dynamic concept” and terrorists also keep on changing methods. The CISF is in-charge of security at airports.

“The modus operandi they (terrorists) have used once may not be used again.

–Agencies