The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Bomb scare at bank, telephone exchange

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Tuesday, Feb 20, 2007
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Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Bomb scare at bank, telephone exchange

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Work was affected for some time at the Vijayanagar telephone exchange and the State Bank of Mysore's Vijayanagar branch on Monday following a bomb scare.

Around 12.45 p.m., the staff at the telephone exchange and the bank received calls that bombs had been planted on their premises.

The Bomb Detection Squad, along with sniffer dog squad, rushed there and searched the two premises.

No explosives were found and the calls turned out to be hoax, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) K.V. Sharathchandra said.

No caller identity

The police could not ascertain from where the calls were made as the phones at the bank as well as the telephone exchange did not have caller identification devices, Mr. Sharathchandra told The Hindu .

The police suspect that the same persons might have made both the calls.

Claim

It is said that the person who called up the bank, situated opposite the Adi Chunchanagiri Math in M.C. Layout, claimed that he was calling from an English newspaper office.

The Vijayanagar police have registered separate cases.

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