Bomb threat to school in Pondy turns hoax

Pondicherry, Sep 6 (UNI) A bomb threat to a private school at Mangalakshminagar here today turned out to be a hoax.

According to the police, a staff member of the school received an anonymous phone call this morning stating that a bomb, planted in the school, would explode any time.

She immediately conveyed the matter to the school's correspondent, who then passed on the information to the police.

A bomb disposal squad police team with metal detectors and sniffer dogs searched the school, but no explosive was found.

The school declared a holiday following the bomb threat.

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