A wave of bomb scares has rocked Phuket, prompting mosque security crackdowns as leaders fight to protect the island’s reputation.

Phuket Airport general manager Monchai Tanode in a press conference said the incident occurred following a message with a bomb threat, which was found in one of the plane's lavatories after takeoff.

An Air India flight from Thailand's Phuket island to New Delhi was forced to make an emergency landing Friday shortly after takeoff because of an onboard bomb threat.

Flight LH752 departed from Germany and was scheduled to land at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport early Monday; however, Lufthansa airlines said that they 'did not receive permission to ...