Los Angeles: A Los Angeles college campus was evacuated on Thursday after the university received a telephoned bomb threat, but no explosives were found during a search of the campus, police said. Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Commander Andrew Smith said the college made the decision to close the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, and evacuate staff and students.
"The CSULA campus is closed as of noon, April 18, as a precaution. Those on campus should evacuate immediately," the university, which has an enrollment of about 20,000 students, said in a tweet.
A police spokesman said that a search of the campus by a bomb squad turned up no explosives. The university remained closed for the day.
Security officials across the United States have been on alert in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday....
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09:04 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Pittsburgh: A University of Pittsburgh grad student, who was nervous about her ability to teach a class, instead made two bomb threats so it would be cancelled, campus police said. Online court records don't list an attorney for Nancy Bruni, 34, of New Kensington, who didn't immediately return a call seeking comment on charges of terroristic threats, and threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction. Pitt police charged the...
07:30 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Washington: A man has been arrested after police say he made a bomb threat outside the White House. DC police spokesman Araz Alali says the man approached an officer at the White House gates this morning and warned that a bomb would detonate in a truck parked nearby. Surrounding streets and the entrance to a nearby Metro rail station were shut down as the Secret Service inspected the vehicle for...
03:48 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Campus of one of the largest universities in the US, located close to the Mexican border was evacuated after officials received an anonymous bomb threat. Students and staff of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) got a text message around 2 pm on Tuesday, warning of a bomb and telling them to leave campus. ...
02:20 PM, Mar 27, 2013
A hoax bomb call delayed an Indigo flight on Tuesday morning at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in the capital. Passengers on the Delhi-Patna flight were de-boarded and their luggage taken off the aircraft following the call. ...
03:29 PM, Feb 26, 2013
A 13-year-old boy, believed to be from India but attending school in Singapore, was arrested here after he allegedly threatened to plant bombs in a local casino resort, a media report said on Tuesday. ...
12:14 AM, Jan 02, 2013
Kochi: Police and CISF personnel are on high alert at the Kochi Airport at nearby Nedumbassery following an anonymous call on Tuesday morning that a bomb had been planted there. The call was received at the Air India office at the Airport around 6.45 am. No specific area or location was mentioned, Airport Director AKC Nair told PTI. The Airport area was thoroughly checked by bomb and dog squad but...
10:44 AM, Dec 11, 2012
Anchorage: Officials say a terminal at Alaska's main airport has been evacuated over a bomb scare. The manager of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport says the main terminal was cleared after a male passenger early on Sunday referred to a bomb in a bag. John Parrott says travelers were evacuated to another terminal, as authorities search the luggage. So far, no explosive has turned up. He says the man who...
07:22 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Chennai: Normal routine was thrown out of gear at the Annai Satya School in K K Nagar on Monday morning after it received a hoax call, claiming that a bomb was planted on its campus. School authorities said that they received the call around 8.30 am, following which the school was evacuated. Their fears, it turned out, were unfounded. School authorities alerted the police, who arrived with a bomb squad...
12:40 PM, Sep 04, 2012
San Antonio: The San Antonio International Airport was evacuated for about 90 minutes on Wednesday after a caller said three bombs were planted in a parking garage, but police did not find anything dangerous. San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus indicated that the caller gave 'specific threats' concerning the parking garage and 'non-specific threats' concerning both airport terminals. The terminals were reopened around 4 pm local time. But airport officials...
06:02 AM, Aug 02, 2012
New York: An Indian-origin man, who called himself a "terrorist", has been found guilty by a jury of threatening to blow up a medical firm in Connecticut and faces up to 10 years in prison. Shaneel Jain, 56, was convicted of one count of making a bomb threat and one count of false information and hoaxes. He would be sentenced on October 16 when he could be ordered to pay...
10:23 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: A bomb threat forced the evacuation of a SpiceJet flight at Delhi's IGI Airport on Sunday night.The threat was received for Spicejet flight SG 148 Delhi to Ahmedabad. It was reported that SpiceJet received a specific call about the threat. Security checks are underway right now and reportedly the passengers are still at the terminal. More details are awaited. ...
11:00 PM, Jun 17, 2012
TIRUNELVELI: The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) on Tuesday received three bomb threat letters. Two threat letters addressed to a contract worker working at KKNPP and another letter send to KKNPP administration were received at the plant on Tuesday, Police sources said.The sender, Tirunelveli Pothunala Kuzhu (Tirunelveli Public Welfare Committee), said that the contract worker and another worker were sent for planting bombs at KKNPP.The letter instructs them to plant...
10:29 AM, May 17, 2012
Beijing: A bomb threat delayed a flight from Chinese city of Shanghai to Chengdu, airport authorities said on Saturday. Shanghai Pudong International Airport received an anonymous phone call saying that a bomb was on board flight CA406, according to police at the airport. Police evacuated the passengers and inspected the plane, but no bomb was found, Xinhua news agency reported. The flight took off after a delay of about 5...
12:30 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Washington: The bomb threat to the Indian Embassy in Washington was made by a caller from the western US state of Utah speaking in "Hinglish", indicating that he was apparently of South Asian origin, sources said in Washington. The bomb threat prompted the evacuation of the Embassy premises, chancery and Ambassador Nirupama Rao's residence. Giving more details about the threat, police and US Secret Service said a suspicious object was...
08:02 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: A Mumbai-Delhi Air India flight on Tuesday night landed under emergency condition at the airport in New Delhi following a bomb threat. Soon after AI-888 took off from Mumbai at 7:00 pm, the Air India call centre there received a phone call from an anonymous person saying the aircraft was carrying a baggage which had a bomb. The pilot of the Airbus A-319, carrying 117 passengers and six...
10:32 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Chennai: An anonymous call stating that a bomb has been placed in a 16-storey building housing IT major Tata Consultancy Services and other business units here sent authorities into a tizzy but it turned out to be a hoax. The call was received by a staff at private power firm in the building complex in Ambattur, an industrial hub, around 0830 hrs on Friday, police said. Police and bomb squad...
04:05 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Chennai: Police on Tuesday conducted a drill at shopping malls in the city to check the preparedness of security agencies to deal with emergencies in the backdrop of last week's bomb blast at Delhi. The drill was conducted due to a 'general alert' issued by the Home Ministry, top officials said. Various wings of the city police such as its security division, Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad and sniffer dogs...
03:42 PM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: On Tuesday there was a bomb threat in Chennai at Temple Towers building at Mount Road. Chennai Police are conducting checks on the ninth floor of the building post the threat. Chennai Police Commissioner also issued a statement saying there was no need to panic. ...
01:54 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Karachi: Two flights operated by Pakistan's state-owned airline received bombs threats on Wednesday, and both landed safely, one in Turkey, the other in Malaysia. The first flight was headed for Manchester, England, when it was notified of the threat near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, and contacted the control tower in Istanbul to seek permission for the landing, state-run state-run Anatolia news agency reported. PIA spokesman Mashood Tajwar confirmed the...
09:52 PM, Sep 07, 2011
