Bomb threat: Security beefed up at Guruvayur temple

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsAn anonymous phone call warning of trigerring a bomb blast at the Guruvayur Sreekrishna Temple in the coming three days, has kept the district police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad on tenterhooks.According to City Police Commissioner P Vijayan, a regional news channel reporter in Thrissur received the anonymous call on his official mobile phone from an Eranakulam-based landline number (0484- 23905558) at 11.53 am, stating that there would be a blast at the temple within three days.Immediately, the information was passed on to the commissioner’s office. The police responded by despatching the Bomb Disposal Squad to the temple. The squad carried out combing activities on the premises, but nothing suspicious could be found. However, a high alert has been sounded in and around the temple and a control room has also been set up on the premises, the Commissioner said.“The bomb threat is suspected to be a hoax. However we are not leaving anything to chance. All the lodges and hotels in the vicinity of the temple and other prominent places in the town are being searched thoroughly by a police team led by Guruvayur Assistant Commissioner of Police,” the police chief said.According to the reporter who received the call, the caller spoke in fluent Malayalam and the call lasted only less than a minute. “He also warned me to take the call seriously, else there would be a tragedy,” he said.According to sources in the Guruvayur police, the call was made from a coin booth near Eranakulam Town Railway Station. The police are also in the process of tracing the caller with the recorded land phone number, said an officer of the Guruvayur police station.On July 27, 2011, the temple authorities had received a letter warning of bomb attacks on the shrine by the Al-Qaida, which turned out out be a hoax. The letter, typed on a manual typewriter and appeared to have been posted from Chennai, had stated that bombs had been placed on the “rear side of the Guruvayur temple and Thiruvananthapuram temple.” The letter also spoke of bringing down the government in Tamil Nadu andthe Modi government in Gujarat.first published:August 13, 2012, 09:58 ISTlast updated:August 13, 2012, 09:58 IST
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An anonymous phone call warning of trigerring a bomb blast at the Guruvayur Sreekrishna Temple in the coming three days, has kept the district police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad on tenterhooks.

According to City Police Commissioner P Vijayan, a regional news channel reporter in Thrissur received the anonymous call on his official mobile phone from an Eranakulam-based landline number (0484- 23905558) at 11.53 am, stating that there would be a blast at the temple within three days.

Immediately, the information was passed on to the commissioner’s office. The police responded by despatching the Bomb Disposal Squad to the temple. The squad carried out combing activities on the premises, but nothing suspicious could be found. However, a high alert has been sounded in and around the temple and a control room has also been set up on the premises, the Commissioner said.

“The bomb threat is suspected to be a hoax. However we are not leaving anything to chance. All the lodges and hotels in the vicinity of the temple and other prominent places in the town are being searched thoroughly by a police team led by Guruvayur Assistant Commissioner of Police,” the police chief said.

According to the reporter who received the call, the caller spoke in fluent Malayalam and the call lasted only less than a minute. “He also warned me to take the call seriously, else there would be a tragedy,” he said.

According to sources in the Guruvayur police, the call was made from a coin booth near Eranakulam Town Railway Station. The police are also in the process of tracing the caller with the recorded land phone number, said an officer of the Guruvayur police station.

On July 27, 2011, the temple authorities had received a letter warning of bomb attacks on the shrine by the Al-Qaida, which turned out out be a hoax. The letter, typed on a manual typewriter and appeared to have been posted from Chennai, had stated that bombs had been placed on the “rear side of the Guruvayur temple and Thiruvananthapuram temple.” The letter also spoke of bringing down the government in Tamil Nadu and

the Modi government in Gujarat.