Date:04/03/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/03/04/stories/2005030419060300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Bomb hoax creates panic in hospital

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, MARCH 3. A phone call that a bomb has been planted created panic in the ESI Hospital in Rajajinagar here on Thursday.

The police said the phone call, which was received around 11.30 a.m., originated from a public telephone booth. The police, accompanied by a bomb disposal squad and a dog squad, searched for the bomb for more than an hour and found nothing.

This was the third time that the hospital had received such a call, the police said.