After Brussels attack, visitors’ entry banned at Amritsar airport

The entry of visitors was today banned at the Sri Guru Ramdas International Airport here in the wake of the terror strike at Brussels.

Amritsar, Mar 24:  The entry of visitors was today banned at the Sri Guru Ramdas International Airport here in the wake of the terror strike at Brussels. Confirming the ban on visitors’ entry, police said the decision was taken following orders from the Directorate of Civil Aviation. The ban would be in place for the next seven days till March 29 midnight, they said.
Those coming to see off passengers at the airport and were allowed access to the visitors’ gallery will now be turned away, said officials at the international airport here, also known as Raja Sansi airport.

Brussels airport will remain closed until at least Saturday, a spokeswoman said, following deadly bombings claimed by the Islamic State group. “The airport is closed to passengers until Friday included,” spokeswoman Anke Fransen told AFP on Wednesday, a day after the attacks by two suicide bombers that wrecked the departure hall. “We cannot say for certain if the flights will be reopened to passengers on Saturday,” she said, adding however that cargo and private flights could resume “as of now”.