Hoax bomb call causes evacuation of Moscow railroad terminal
06:20 16/12/2010 MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow's Kievsky Rail Terminal was evacuated early on Thursday following a hoax bomb threat, police said.
Police received an anonymous phone call early on Thursday reporting that a bomb had been planted in the terminal. Experts and sniffer dogs searched the building, but found nothing.
"The anonymous [bomb] reports have not been confirmed. The train station is now operating as normal," a police spokesman said.
Police earlier told RIA Novosti that some 15 hoax bomb reports had been registered in the Russian capital on Tuesday.
At least 800 people were arrested near the Kievsky terminal on Wednesday evening as police held a massive operation to prevent new race-hate riots. Many of those detained were carrying knives and rubber bullet guns.
Some 5,000 nationalists and football hooligans clashed with police near Red Square on Saturday. Rioters also attacked dark-skinned internal migrants from the country's North Caucasus region.
President Dmitry Medvedev has called the disorder, which was triggered by the death of a football fan in a brawl with migrants, a threat to the stability of the Russian state.
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