Pune hotel receives bomb threat

Pune, Oct 7 (UNI) Panic gripped the city when a hotel at the busy Fergusson College Road here received an anonymous call, threatening to blow it up, but it turned out to be a hoax today.

According to police, the owner of Hotel Rupali received the call at around 1100 hrs that a bomb had been planted in its premises, and would explode soon.

Police along with the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad immediately launched a search after asking people to vacate the hotel, but found nothing suspicious, police said.

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