Kolkata: A youth, who was moving around suspiciously near the Panagarh Air Force base station, was on Sunday nabbed by villagers and handed over to the police.
"The villagers near air force station Panagarh found two persons moving around suspiciously. One person has been handed over to the police but the search is on for the second person," a Defence official said.
Around the same time, a few vehicles near the same village caught fire at a petrol pump for which the air force had to rush its fire tenders to douse the blaze.
"It is clarified that no incident has taken place inside the air force station. The identity of the apprehend person is being ascertained by the police," the official said.
Located around 150 km away from here, Panagarh base has recently been refurbished so that all kinds of aircraft in the inventory of IAF can be flown from there.
