A bomb threat over telephone sent a wave of panic among the students, teachers and employees of the Chittagong University (CU) here on Sunday.

An unidentified person called at the CU chemistry department at about 8.30 in the morning. He told the peon of the department that several explosives were planted at the department and those would go off at any time, sources said.

But the threat was later proved a hoax as an extensive search by police could not find any bomb.

The on duty police as well as the university employees carried out an intensive search for around two and a half hours in vain.

The incident disrupted the academic activities of the universities for around three hours. During the search on the laboratories, classrooms panic gripped the students. Panic eased when the police did not find anything unusual like the explosives.The academic activities were disrupted for the three hours.

Release of Saber, Muntasir,Shahria r demanded

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Chittagong Omar Gani MES College brought out a procession and held a rally demanding unconditional release of Prof Muntasir Mamun, Mukul Bosh, writer Shahriar Kabir and Awami League (AL) leader Shaber Hossain Chowdhury.

They took out the procession from the college compound and ended on the Shaheed Minar premises parading through the different streets of the port city. Later they held a rally there.

Terming the arrests as the ' violation of human rights', the leaders said the present government has done everything denying democratic and human rights of the citizens of the country.