HYDERABAD: A phone call warning of a bomb at Moula Ali railway station turned out to be a hoax while police and commuters experienced tense moments for nearly an hour on Friday morning. The call created a flutter in view of the serial blasts in Mumbai just a couple of days ago.It was around 11.30 am that the booking clerk at the ticket issuing counter at Moula Ali railway station received a call on the landline telephone from an unknown person. “The caller claimed that a bomb was planted in the railway station and would explode anytime. The caller did not even complete the conversation and cut the line,” Malkajgiri police inspector A Venkateshwarlu said. The anonymous caller spoke in Telugu. The booking clerk immediately alerted the police who reached the railway station with bomb disposal squads and sniffer dogs. An extensive search was conducted for more than an hour in the railway station and nearby areas and the call was declared hoax as no explosives were found.Police said that no caller identification facility was available on the landline and it will be impossible to trace the caller.
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