One day after the deadly assault on an Indian air base near the Pakistan border on Saturday, several trains were delayed and some were diverted after a bomb scare at India’s New Delhi Railway station on Sunday morning. 

‘The Indian railway board was informed by Mumbai ATS after latter received an e-mail threatening of bomb blast on Delhi-Kanpur train’, reported Zee News.

‘In its letter to the New Delhi Railway Station officials, Delhi Police asked them to thoroughly check and sanitise all the trains between New Delhi and Kanpur before letting them depart. The letter says that the sender has threatened to explode the trains within next 72 hours.’

‘Following the threat, security has been tightened at New Delhi Railway Station and other railway station in Delhi. Passengers are being properly frisked before entering the station premises. Dog squad and top officials of the security agencies have reached the New Delhi Railway station.’

‘Delhi and other neighbouring state are on a high alert following a terror attack on Pathankot Air Force base on Saturday.’

‘At least four terrorists, suspected to be from Pakistan, were killed in a gunfight that lasted nearly 15 hours after they breached a high-security security perimeter and entered a frontline Indian Air Force (IAF) base near Pathankot town in northern Punjab early on Saturday to carry out a Fidayeen attack.’

A tweet by Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said five terrorists had been killed in the operation. This was later withdrawn. Prior to the initial tweet, the number of terrorists killed had been placed at four.’

Police sources said that at least three IAF security personnel were killed and four others were injured in the terror attack that started at about 3:30am. The counter offensive lasted nearly 15 hours.’