BAHAWALPUR, Aug 3: A man scared the hell out of passengers of a Lahore-bound bus by appearing in the garb of a suicide bomber and threatening to blow up the coach early on Friday.

Information gathered by Dawn revealed that a Daewoo bus, coming from Sadiqabad, left Bahawalpur terminal after a brief stopover at 3am. As it reached the Lodhran bypass on Khanewal Road, about 15kms from here, an unidentified passenger asked the driver to stop as “I want to blow the bus with a bomb”.

Many of the passengers started screaming and the driver took to the heels. The self-proclaimed bomber drove the coach towards Haveli Naseer Khan on Kahror Pucca Road where he stopped it and disappeared in the dark.

A police party brought the coach back to Lodhran from where it resumed journey.

The police claimed that the suspect could not be traced in the forest nearby.

Officials at the Daewoo terminal declined to disclose any information.