The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Erode News : Bomb threat to school causes panic

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Wednesday, Jun 08, 2005

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Bomb threat to school causes panic

Staff Reporter

Educational institutions instructed to install caller identification facility

Feeling safe: Students of Seventh Day Adventist Matriculation School in Erode who were shifted to a housing complex nearby. Photo: M. Govarthan

ERODE: All the 450-and-odd students of the Seventh Day Adventist Matriculation School were moved out after it received a call that a bomb was placed there. Later it turned out to be a hoax.

The school is situated on Sheik Dhawood Street at Pattakar Thottam, Erode.

According to the police, the Principal of the school received a call on Tuesday at around 10 a.m. that a powerful bomb was placed in the school and would explode in a few minutes.

The school authorities immediately shifted the students to a housing complex nearby and informed the Erode Police Control Room. A team of police personnel led by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, N. Krishnamurthy, rushed to the spot. Police bomb disposal squad and the sniffer dog `Bobby' checked every nook and corner. Nothing was found.

Parents rushed to the school in panic and took the children. Later a holiday was declared for the school.

The police said that the school authorities should install Caller Identification facility on their telephone to thwart the attempts of mischief-mongers. Meanwhile, officials of the Education Department instructed all schools to install Caller ID facility.

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