Mumbai: One person detained after police received 26/11-like attack threat
Live MintMumbai Police detained one person from the city's Virar area after the officials received text messages warning of a 26/11-like attack on the city, according to news agency ANI. City Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar on Saturday confirmed that threat messages about 26/11-like terror attack in the city came from Pakistan as per available information. Mumbai police's traffic wing has received several text messages on its helpline number, threatening that a "26/11-like" attack will be carried out in the city by six persons and "preparations are on to blow up" the metropolis. "Text messages were received on the WhatsApp number of the Mumbai traffic police's helpline operated from its control room located at Worli around 11 pm on Friday," the official said.