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Bomb threat leads to evacuation in Czech ski resort

Xinhua, January 23, 2017 Adjust font size:

About 300 people were evacuated from a ski resort in Ostruzna, Czech Republic over an anonymous call claiming bombs were planted there on Sunday morning, said Czech police spokeswoman Irena Urbankova.

No bomb was eventually found, Urbankova said.

Urbankova said the police received an anonymous call saying that an unspecified number of bombs were planted in an unspecified place in the ski resort Ostruzna on Sunday morning.

The search lasted six hours. The police had to check several kilometers of downhill courses and a number of buildings.

The search involved 25 policemen, 10 firefighters and two members of the Mountain Rescue Service. Endit