Wednesday incident is the fifth bomb hoax in Kovai, say police
Parannur West AMLP School
Coimbatore: In yet another hoax bomb threat that sent the harried Coimbatore cops into a tizzy on Thursday, an unidentified person called up a private matri culation school in Kottaimedu near Ukkadam on Thursday and claimed that a bomb had been planted inside the school campus. The Al-Azhar Matriculation school at Kottaimedu in Ukkadam declared a holiday. But after hours of search, the police confirmed it was hoax call.
It is the fifth bomb hoax in the city this year, said police officers.Around 11.45 am on Thursday, an unidentified person made a call to Al- Azhar matriculation school. The school management immediately decided declare a holiday and asked the parents to take back their children home. As the anxious parents rushed to the school, a team of police along with Bomb Detection and Disposable Squad (BDDS) and dog squad rushed to the school and conducted a search for the bomb.
The school management refused to comment about the hoax call, but the city police with the help of cyber crime are trying to trace the hoax caller.This year, the hoax callers' main targets are city police commissioner office, court complex, Amma canteen and educational institutions. Most of the hoax caller's turn out to be youth who just revel over pressing the panic buttons, reveal police.
On September 5, a Class VIII boy was nabbed for making a hoax call to city police commissioner's office control room on September 1 and sent to a juvenile home. Police said that the boy had made the call from an auto driver's mobile, which went missing about a year ago.
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