ISLAMABAD, Oct 5: A hotel near Melody Market was evacuated after it received a bomb threat which created panic among the guests and its employees on Sunday night, police said.

Besides the hotel, shops in Melody Market were also gotten vacated.

The hotel administration received an anonymous call that a bomb had been planted in the building that would detonate shortly.

Shortly after the call was received at around 7:45pm, the police and bomb disposal experts reached the site, got the building vacated and started a search.

The parked vehicles were moved away from the building and the entire building was cordoned off by the police. Barbed wires were placed on the roads leading towards the hotel and traffic was diverted.

After a search, the bomb disposal experts found no explosive and declared it a hoax call.