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Bomb threat halts DU classes

Sylhet schools also receive similar intimidation

DU CORRESPONDENT
A bomb threat by an anonymous caller panicked Dhaka University science students into leaving their classrooms yesterday before the police came up empty-handed in a hectic search, while schools in Sylhet city received a series of hoax telephone bomb threats.
"The first call came at 9:45am followed by a second at 10:10am to the operators of the university telephone exchange. The caller said a powerful bomb was going to explode at the Science Complex Building," said DU Proctor Professor AK Firoz Ahmed.
The DU alerted Dhaka Metropolitan
Police to the threat and it took police officials more than an hour to prove it a hoax.
The bomb scare came a day after an anonymous bomb threat sent all three international airports, including Zia International Airport, on
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high alert and delayed flights from Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Tuesday.
Witnesses said the chairmen of the computer science and engineering and microbiology departments suspended classes and students and teachers ran out of their classrooms.
Hundreds of students crowded the entry to the building, with fear writ large on their faces. A student said his classmates hurried out of their classroom on the second floor the moment they were alerted to "four bombs" secreted at the building.
Prof Firoz who filed a general diary with Ramna Police Station described the caller as teenage and quoted him as telling an operator: "Be careful, all of you … bombs will go off."
Dr Abdul Malek, chairman of the microbiology department, said he and other department staff searched the building and checked students' bags but found nothing. "I asked all students to leave classrooms for safety."
Mohammad Shahidullah, a cleaner, said he and his colleagues checked the building after Chairman of the Computer Science and Engineering Department Dr Hafiz Mohammad
Hasan Babu asked them to do so.
Officer-in-Charge of Ramna Police Station Mahbubur Rahman told The Daily Star on the scene: "A patrol team will stay back here and watch the situation."
Vice-Chancellor Professor SMA Faiz said the episode might have been designed to spread panic, adding the authorities asked law enforcers to beef up security on the campus.
BOMB SCARE IN SYLHET
Sylhet Government Pilot High School in Kalighat and Shahjalal High School in Islampur received a series of calls threatening to blow up the institutions. A police official said the police went to the schools and ran checks shortly before 3:00pm.
Syed Muhaddis Ahmed, principal of Ambarkhana Girls High School and College in the northeastern city, received a call at about 12:30pm from an unidentified man, who said the school would be blown up in a blast between 12 noon and 12:30pm today.
The caller also threatened the principal with dire consequences if the press was informed about it. The principal filed a general diary with Kotwali Police Station, police officials said.