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| Bomb hoax delays Karachi-bound train |
| 2007-02-28 |
| A bomb hoax delayed the Karachi-bound Karakoram Express at Darul Ahsan Railways Station near Sangla Hill, some 100 kilometres from Lahore, for almost four hours on Tuesday. Sources in Pakistan Railways said that the PR central control room received a call from an unidentified cell number at around 5:30pm on Tuesday evening. The caller, who introduced himself as Imtiaz, an operator at WAPDA House in Lahore, told the control room that there was a bomb in bogie number 6 of the Karakoram Express. PR operator Shafiq Hussain passed the information on to Pakistan Railways high-ups, who ordered the train stopped as it passed through Darul Ahsan Railway Station in Faisalabad division. Bomb disposal squad and civil defence officials reach the scene and started searching the train with the help of Railway Police. However, they found no explosive material and the train was cleared to continue its journey at around 9:30pm. |
| Posted by:Fred |