Hyderabad: A Gulf Air flight from Bahrain to Hyderabad was diverted to Mumbai after a bomb threat was received at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Sunday.

Flight GF274 with 154 passengers on board was diverted to Mumbai Airport after an email was received at Hyderabad Airport that a bomb has been planted on the aircraft.

According to sources at Hyderabad Airport, the bomb threat email was received on customer support id at 3 a.m.

In view of this, the flight, which had taken off from Bahrain at 10:20 p.m. on Saturday and was scheduled to land at Hyderabad Airport at 4.55 a.m. on Sunday, was diverted to Mumbai.

The flight later took off from Mumbai and landed at Hyderabad Airport at 11:31 a.m.

Gulf Air also released a statement that flight GF274, which was heading from Ba

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