CHENNAI: A thirteen-year-old boy caused a flutter after he allegedly strayed into the Chennai airport premises on Friday.The ground staff and CISF personnel were reportedly engaged in a hot pursuit, before nabbing the boy. It all started when Kiran (name changed) was spotted loitering near a waiting cargo aircraft beyond the taxi-track Alfa, at 6:45 am, said the ground staff. When they began shouting at him, the boy took flight and evaded the staff on morning duty.He is then believed to have disappeared for a brief period, during which CISF personnel intensified the hunt. After close to 20 minutes of searching, Kiran was reportedly found in an old hangar by the CISF guards.Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials maintained that the boy scaled the VVIP gate, called the ‘Blue’ gate, at 6.25 am and was spotted soon after by the CISF guards who apprehended him immediately and questioned him.They also insisted that the boy did not venture near the runway or any aircraft. The CISF were unable to obtain any details about his parents or where he lived during their interrogation.But, police claimed that he was held by the CISF “till 11 am”, almost five hours before he was handed over in a dazed state.When accosted, the boy, said to be around 13-years-old, maintained a “dazed silence before breaking into fits of tears and screaming before subsiding”, added the Airport Police.The only query he responded to was what his name was, after which the police tried to trace his parents. They also said that no cases of missing kids were reported recently. But, police said they initially presumed he was mentally-ill. “We took him to a mental hospital at Aynavaram. They said he had taken drugs in empty stomach and it would take 72 hours for him to come back to normal,” said a cop.
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