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Bomb hoax at Vijayawada railway station

Staff Reporter

Security staff conduct thorough check on platforms, stalls

VIJAYAWADA : Tension prevailed at the Railway Station following a phone call on Wednesday that a bomb was planted on platform number one.

An employee working in the commercial wing received a phone call at 11.20 a.m.

When the caller `informed' about the bomb, the employee took it as a prank and disconnected the phone. He, however, brought the issue to the notice of his superiors when the same person called again at 11.23 a.m.

Personnel from the Railway Protection Force, along with the railway police, bomb disposal squad, dog squad and the Satyanarayanapuram police, conducted a thorough check on the platform, stalls and retiring rooms for one hour and declared that it was a hoax call.

The railway police found that the caller used a coin-operated phone in Autonagar to make the call.

They were on the lookout for the caller.

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