Ganguly family gets a bomb scare

CALCUTTA, FEB. 28. Hours before Sourav Ganguly was promoted to the hot seat of captain of the Indian cricket team, his family members spent some anxious moments following a hoax bomb scare call here on Saturday.

``Yes, it was terrible. We all got quite panicky,'' Chandi Ganguly, father of the star batsman, told PTI on Monday.

Ganguly said, a caller rang up their family printing press in the city around 1000 hours, claiming that a bomb had been planted there.

Ganguly immediately informed West Bengal Deputy Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya and the bomb disposal squad personnel of city police arrived in no time with sniffer dogs.

After a trying two hours of frantic search, the police finally gave up saying the call was hoax.

Asked whether he had informed his celebrity son of the incident, Ganguly answered in the negative. ``He would have got tense, you know.''

- PTI

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