By IANS
Nagpur : A bomb scare following a hoax call led to the detention of the Howrah-Mumbai Geetanjali Express at the Bhandara Road railway station near here Tuesday morning for over a search that took three hours.
Police stopped the super-fast train at the Warthi (Bhandara Road) railway station, 80 km from here, a little after 8.30 a.m. following information from their Nagpur counterparts that a bomb was placed somewhere on the train, Bhandara police control room officers told IANS.
The Bhandara police along with the Government Railway Police Force (GRPF) personnel carried out a thorough search of the train and the passengers’ luggage, using sniffer dogs in the search operation, but found no bomb or any other explosive material.
The train was allowed to resume its journey from Bhandara Road station, which is not a scheduled halt for the Geetanjali Express, at around 12.00 noon, police said.
“The anonymous call (received by the Nagpur police control room) has turned out to be a hoax but we could not take any chances in view of the explosive situation, especially following the Hyderabad bomb blasts,” police told IANS.
Two near-simultaneous blasts in Hyderabad Saturday evening left 43 people dead and 70 injured.