School in Kandivali gets bomb threat

Teams from the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad were sent to a school in a northwest suburb following a bomb scare, police said on Monday.

Teams from the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad were sent to a school in a northwest suburb following a bomb scare, police said on Monday.

A member of the management of the Sardar Vallabhai Patel School in suburban Kandivali had received a call from a public telephone booth on January 9 threatening a bomb blast in the school, they said.

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Today when a missed call was received from the same number the school authorities informed the police who searched the premises of the school. No suspicious objects were found, police said.

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