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Mumbai railway station receives threat call

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-22 17:31

NEW DELHI -- A suburban railway station in the Indian metropolis of Mumbai received on Sunday a threat phone call saying attackers will blow up the station and three other railway stations across the city, said railway police in the Indian financial capital.

"At around 8:30 am (0300 GMT) a call was received by Station Master of Dahisar railway station saying that the four railway stations would be blown up including Dahisar station," police said.

Police said nothing has been found so far in search operations by dog squads that were going on at Bandra, Dahisar, Borivali of Western Railway and Ghatkopar station of Central Railway, all places mentioned in the threat call.

Mumbai came under attacks by ten terrorists from November 26 to 29 last year, in which at least 173 people were killed and over 300 wounded.

The attackers were from Pakistan and only one of them was caught alive and is in Indian custody.