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Bomb hoax at college, railway station

Staff Reporter

Caller informs college about `explosives'

ANANTAPUR: A bomb threat to a private junior college and the railway station here on Monday morning caused panic among college students and staff and officials of the railway station. However, after a thorough search of the two premises by the bomb disposal squads the calls proved to be hoax.

According to the police and station manager C. Aswartha Naik, a college functionary Rambabu received a phone call around 7.40 a.m. stating that bombs were planted in the college and the railway station and they would explode within half-an-hour. The college authorities immediately alerted the police and the railway station officials. The railway officials too informed the police and a bomb disposal and sniffer dog was pressed into service first on the college premises.

Thorough search

As classes commence at 8 a.m. both the students and the staff were in panic. The students were let in only after a thorough search. Later, the squad scanned the railway station premises for the explosives but in vain.

The police and railway officials heaved a sigh of relief as no explosive material was found on the station premises and the bomb call tuned out to be a hoax. The police traced the call to a coin collection box public telephone in the town.

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