New Delhi, July 19
Normal functioning of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS) was affected for a couple of hours this morning after scores
of security personnel, bomb disposal squads and sniffer dogs descended
on the sprawling complex to carry out extensive searches after
receiving a call that explosives had been planted there.
However, nothing suspicious was found during the searches, the
police said and declared the call a hoax. The Delhi Police and other
security agencies in the Capital have been kept on their toes after
the July 13 Mumbai serial blasts by miscreants making hoax calls.
According to AIIMS officials, the police informed them this morning
that they had received a call that explosives had been planted in the
premiere institute. Soon specific areas were cordoned off and searches
conducted by the police personnel assisted by the security staff of
the Institute.
Mumbai: The police today searched two schools, one in the
city and another in Thane district, after reports that bombs had been
planted in them but these turned out to be hoax.
The principal of St Joseph School in suburban Juhu received an
anonymous call that a bomb had been planted in the premises. He
immediately alerted police, whom swung into action with a bomb squad
but no suspicious object was found, officials said.
In another incident, unclaimed baggage was found in the premises of
St Zavier’s Achool at Mira Road in Thane. The bomb squad took away
the bag but nothing was found in it, police said. It was not known who
had left the bag in the school.
