Bomb hoax at South Block

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, SEPT. 23. The New Delhi police went into a tizzy here tonight following a call from the Prime Minister's residence that a bomb had been planted in the South Block area housing the Defence Ministry and the PMO, a stone's throw from Rashtrapati Bhavan. But no bomb was found till late tonight.

The call to the police at 9 p.m. was apparently made by one of the Special Security Guards deployed at the Prime Minister's residence, who said a call had been received from one Raj Kumar claiming that a bomb had been planted and that it would explode within five minutes. Bomb disposal squads and sniffer dogs were pressed into service but the call turned out to be a hoax.

Police have been able to trace the telephone number from where the call had been made through the caller identification system installed at the Prime Minister's residence.

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