Thaindian News

By Madhuri Dey
Los Angeles, Apr 29, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The University of Southern California received a bomb threat at around 12:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, Apr 28. As soon as the call was received, the police were informed and a team was sent to the University in order to search for any possible explosive. The University immediately shut down the Leavey Library, and the students and staff were warned not to go near that section. The students were ordered to remain in their classrooms, along with their professors, as the bomb squad searched the campus for any suspicious package. Some of the streets close by were also cordoned off by the Los Angeles Police. However, no bomb was found in the campus.

The Los Angeles Police Department later reported that the bomb threat had probably originated from the County USC Medical Center. However, they later rectified, saying that the call had come from the psychiatric ward of the USC University Hospital. Apparently, the call to the University was not the only one that had been made by the caller; earlier in the day, he had made various other calls reporting a number of other crimes. However, the USA was the only recipient that he got any attention from.

The police have reported that although the caller claimed that he had actually planted the bomb in the University campus, they did not believe that anything of the sort had been done by him, and that most likely the man as drunk or under some intoxicating influence when he had made the call. The man was later taken into custody, and the police gave the all-clear at around 1:30 in the afternoon.