Hoax Bomb Scare

In less than 72 hours, 12 airlines received bomb threats, prompting a security scare which has not been witnessed before.

A passing remark by a passenger led to a bomb scare at the Kolkata airport on Friday, delaying a flight to Pune by a few hours, an official said.

At least four schools in Jaipur have received bomb threats via email today, police said, days after bomb hoaxes triggered security scare at schools in Delhi and Ahmedabad.

Several hospitals in Delhi, along with the Indira Gandhi International Airport, received bomb threat emails on Sunday, triggering a panic and sending the security personnel into a tizzy.

An IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Lucknow was delayed on Friday after a man said that there was a bomb under his seat.

A 24-year-old autistic man had the Gurgaon Police on their toes for more than an hour after he made a hoax call about a bomb at The Leela Hotel in Ambience Mall Complex in Gurugram this morning.

Two contraptions looking like bombs were found in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district on Wednesday but turned out to be hoax, police said.

The CRPF headquarters in Delhi received a bomb threat over a phone call this evening which was later found to be a hoax, officials said. This comes hours after two unattended bags created a bomb scare in East Delhi's Trilokpuri.

A man was arrested for making a hoax call about a bag containing bomb at the city railway station on Sunday, the police said.

A hoax bomb threat triggered panic at Kendriya Vidyalaya in Delhi's Gole market area on Thursday, prompting authorities to vacate the school campus, police said.

A suspicious object, mistaken for bomb, was detected near the railway track between Sealdah and Park Circus stations today morning that led to disruption of train services for nearly an hour, an Eastern Railway spokesman said. After examination, it was found to be a hoax, the official added. The suspicious material was removed by RPF and GRP person...

An abandoned can lying near an escalator at Rabindra Sadan station on Saturday triggered a scare as commuters suspected it to be a bomb which turned out to be a hoax, Metro Railway officials said.

Police and security personnel carried out extensive searches of trains after an early morning hoax call about explosives planted in a train arriving in Delhi.

Security officials and Air India staff immediately evacuated the passengers from the flight and checked the plane. After a green signal by the officials, the flight finally took off at 6.30 pm.

Security was tightened in and around Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy Stadium for the IPL match between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) after a bomb scare, which was later found to be a hoax, police said on Sunday.

In less than 72 hours, 12 airlines received bomb threats, prompting a security scare which has not been witnessed before.

A passing remark by a passenger led to a bomb scare at the Kolkata airport on Friday, delaying a flight to Pune by a few hours, an official said.

At least four schools in Jaipur have received bomb threats via email today, police said, days after bomb hoaxes triggered security scare at schools in Delhi and Ahmedabad.

Several hospitals in Delhi, along with the Indira Gandhi International Airport, received bomb threat emails on Sunday, triggering a panic and sending the security personnel into a tizzy.

An IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Lucknow was delayed on Friday after a man said that there was a bomb under his seat.

A 24-year-old autistic man had the Gurgaon Police on their toes for more than an hour after he made a hoax call about a bomb at The Leela Hotel in Ambience Mall Complex in Gurugram this morning.

Two contraptions looking like bombs were found in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district on Wednesday but turned out to be hoax, police said.

The CRPF headquarters in Delhi received a bomb threat over a phone call this evening which was later found to be a hoax, officials said. This comes hours after two unattended bags created a bomb scare in East Delhi's Trilokpuri.

A man was arrested for making a hoax call about a bag containing bomb at the city railway station on Sunday, the police said.

A hoax bomb threat triggered panic at Kendriya Vidyalaya in Delhi's Gole market area on Thursday, prompting authorities to vacate the school campus, police said.

A suspicious object, mistaken for bomb, was detected near the railway track between Sealdah and Park Circus stations today morning that led to disruption of train services for nearly an hour, an Eastern Railway spokesman said. After examination, it was found to be a hoax, the official added. The suspicious material was removed by RPF and GRP person...

An abandoned can lying near an escalator at Rabindra Sadan station on Saturday triggered a scare as commuters suspected it to be a bomb which turned out to be a hoax, Metro Railway officials said.

Police and security personnel carried out extensive searches of trains after an early morning hoax call about explosives planted in a train arriving in Delhi.

Security officials and Air India staff immediately evacuated the passengers from the flight and checked the plane. After a green signal by the officials, the flight finally took off at 6.30 pm.

Security was tightened in and around Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy Stadium for the IPL match between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) after a bomb scare, which was later found to be a hoax, police said on Sunday.