Airport Blast Scare

An airline staffer's act of mistaking the word "ballast" for "blast" created a security scare at the Raja Bhoj International Airport in Bhopal and led to sounding of an alert at the establishment, officials said on Friday.

Sri Lankan security officials ordered a lockdown at the central bank on Thursday due to a bomb scare, two bank officials told Reuters, as the street outside the bank, which is near the World Trade Center, was blocked to traffic.

An airline staffer's act of mistaking the word "ballast" for "blast" created a security scare at the Raja Bhoj International Airport in Bhopal and led to sounding of an alert at the establishment, officials said on Friday.

Sri Lankan security officials ordered a lockdown at the central bank on Thursday due to a bomb scare, two bank officials told Reuters, as the street outside the bank, which is near the World Trade Center, was blocked to traffic.