Airport Security ‘Air-gunned’ at Vadodara Airport

Now you must return your parcels with a ‘not an air gun’ tag before the scanner guns you down for it!

During a harmless scanning process of shipments from one city to another, a gun was detected along with bullets at the Vadodara Airport. The shipment was immediately extracted from the bulked package and opened up for further investigation.

DCP Zone-4 Sarojkumari along with a team reported to the Airport to examine the situation that looked alarming at prima facie. After thorough scrutiny of the situation, the DCP spoke to Our Vadodara to clear the air on the same. The DCP stated that what looked like a gun was merely an air-gun with bullets filled with Potassium Chlorate – a harmless powder used to make crackers with colour gas.

The toy air-gun was being transported from Surat to Amritsar via air courier. The air-gun was purchased by a Surat resident during his visit to Amritsar. However, he was only returning the air gun as he did not like the colour of the gun.

The DCP ensured that the incident is not an alarming one.