Calicut international airport at Karipur in Kerala resumed operations this morning after being temporarily shutdown. Violence had erupted on Wednesday, following >the death of a CISF jawan .
“Operations have become normal”, Airport Director Janardhanan, told PTI . “Two Air India Express flights have landed and one flight diverted from Bangalore will be landing shortly,” he said.
A tense situation had prevailed after CISF personnel with Fire Force department at the airport last night over frisking of an Airports Authority of India (AAI) official.
Following this, at least three flights had been diverted to Kochi’s Nedumbassery airport.
Meanwhile, angry passengers of the Dammam-Kozhikode flight, which was diverted to Kochi early on Thursday, said they were made to wait inside the aircraft from 3.30 a.m. to 5.30 a.m. without being served food or water.
“We reached Kochi around 3.30 a.m. this morning and were allowed to leave the aircraft only two hours later”, a woman passenger with a young daughter said.
Another passenger said other than a piece of cake, chips and a bottle of water served during the flight from Dammam, they have not had any food.
Published - June 11, 2015 10:10 am IST
