More sky marshals after Uri terror attack

New Delhi: India has significantly scaled up the presence of sky marshals on domestic and international flights of Indian carriers following the Uri terror attack and tensions on the border with Pakistan.

Sources said that till now, domestic flights and flights to a few destinations in neighbourhood such as Kathmandu and  Kabul were the focus of security and deployment of sky marshals. But now the focus is on international flights as well. Sky marshals are discretely-seated securitymen with weap-ons on board to prevent hijacks.