An MLA hostel in south Mumbai was evacuated after the city police received a phone call about a bomb being placed in the building, an official said on Tuesday. However, no bomb was found after a search in the premises and the phone call turned out to be a hoax, he said.
The probe team, led by ACP K U Belliappa, sent the box to Forensic Science Laboratory for examination, police said. The man, a native of Manipal, had the locker at Kunjibettu branch of Karnataka Bank in Udupi.
The bag containing possible explosive substances was found by a CISF official at the entry point of Mangalore airport on Monday. It was later defused by the bomb squad.
An alert has been sounded at the at Mangalore airport after IED components were found outside a terminal. Further details awaited.
A Mumbai-bound AirAsia flight had to make a mid-air turn and return to Kolkata airport after a bomb scare. This happened after a woman passenger onboard plane threatened to detonate the plane saying there were bombs strapped to her body.
The Delhi Police has written to telecom service providers to trace the UAE caller who made a "hoax bomb call" to the office of an airline at the Delhi airport, police said on Friday. Police were informed about a "bomb in flight which is coming to Delhi" call at around 6 pm on Monday.
An item which caused the evacuation of the Gare du Nord, Europe's busiest train station, has been determined by local authorities to be an inactive mortar shell.
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