TAXILA: The principal of a private school on Thursday received a threatening text message on her mobile phone warning her that a bomb had been planted in the school which would go off at 9am.

She immediately called the police who cordoned off the school building, diverted traffic and vacated adjacent shops and buildings and called bomb disposal squad (BDS). The school is located on GT road in Wah Saddar police area.

Bomb disposal squad after combing the school building with metal detectors and sniffer dogs cleared the building.

“We have combed the whole building and every class and found nothing as it was just hoax,” said an official of the BDS while talking to this reporter.

“The aim of the threatening text message was to create panic and we are tracing the the sender of text message,” said an investigating officer while talking to this reporter.

Police have registered a case under section 506 and 25-D Telegraph Act and launched a hunt for the sender of the text message.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2014