Surat civil hospital receives hoax letter about bomb

Surat, Aug 4 (UNI) After the recovery of 28 live bombs since the July 26 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, the diamond city continued to be in the grip of fear after the superintendent of the civil hospital here received a letter today, saying a bomb was planted in the premises.

The Hospital authorities called the police and for around four hours, police officials, including the bomb disposal squad, searched the entire hospital but found nothing suspicious.

More than five thousand patients and their relatives were in the hospital campus since morning.

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