Sunday 7 December 2014

Bomb threat delays Jammu-Delhi Rajdhani by over four hours

The alert was passed on to Punjab police by their J&K counterpart, following which the search operation was launched.

The train, which had arrived at Pathankot at about 9:18 pm last night finally left the station at 1.57 am this morning after the search was over, police said. The train remained at Pathankot Cantt railway station for 4.34 hours.

They said that the train would be reaching New Delhi at about 9 am on Monday against its scheduled arrival time of 5 am.

Earlier, nearly 150 security personnel including three DSP-rank Punjab Police officers, one SP-rank officer, besides personnel drawn from the Government Railway Police (GRP) thoroughly searched the Jammu-Delhi train at Pathankot Cantt station, which is situated about 250 kilometres from here.

Later on, the Army's help was also sought which chipped in to search the train.

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