GUWAHATI, Dec 13: People of Guwahati heaved a sigh of relief after the bomb scare at the busy Guwahati Railway Station and at Gauhati University campus turned out to be hoax with no explosives recovered from either of the two places as claimed.
Guwahati Police and university authorities went into a tizzy following claims about bombs being planted at the railway station and Gauhati University.
The first alert about bombs being planted in the capital city of Assam came at around 11:00 am yesterday when the City Police Control in Guwahati received a telephonic call from Shillong Police in which cops from the neighbouring State claimed a caller, using a mobile number, rang up Shillong Police’s 24-hour helpline 112 that they were planning to trigger a bomb blast at the Guwahati Railway Station in Paltan Bazar.
Teams from Guwahati Police, along with GRP and RPF of NF Railway, launched a thorough search of the entire station, using sniffer dogs and bomb detection equipment.
Nothing suspicious was, however, found in and around the railway station while one person was picked up from near the Inter-State Bus Terminus.
On the other hand, an e-mail was received by a senior police official in which it was claimed that bombs were placed at eight places inside Gauhati University.
Police, while also taking the second threat very seriously, launched a thorough search but nothing was found.
“It’s actually very scary to even think of that a scenario where bombs could be planted at the Gauhati Railway Station and inside Gauhati University. It’s a big relief that the alerts that police have received have turned out to be hoax calls,” a student whom News Live spoke to at Bhangagarh locality of the city said.
The twin hoax call, incidentally, came at a time when several similar calls have been made across the country, and more particularly in New Delhi, where e-mails threatening explosions were sent to several schools, including six schools which have received threat e-mails late last night.
