Bomb threat causes turmoil at San Borja bus station

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SANTIAGO. - At 8:50 AM this morning, after an hour of painstaking police work, activities resumed inside the San Borja bus station after it had been evacuated due to a bomb threat.

A team of Special Police Operations (GOPE) officers arrived at the scene along with a bomb-sniffing dog and searched both floors of the facility without finding any kind of explosive device.

The threat was made by a man who phoned police at 7:32 AM this morning using the emergency number 113 to report the presence of a bomb on a Pullman Bus.

The area was evacuated after the threat was received, impeding traffic on San Francisco de Borja Street.  Additionally, passengers were forced to board buses on Obispo Umaña Street, located a block away from the station.

This is was the third threatening phone call received this Thursday.  Earlier, police had been called to a tray factory in San Joaquín and to a Citroën car dealership in Bellavista, both of which turned out to be false alarms.