Bomb threat to shops in Vijayawada’s Besant Road, sniffer dogs pressed into service

Bomb squad search operations at Besant road in view of a bomb threat, in Vijayawada on May 24, 2025.
| Photo Credit: G.N. Rao

An unidentified person made a phone call to the Police Control Room saying that a bomb was planted on the busy Besant Road and threatened to explode the bomb on Saturday.

Police sounded alert and are conducting checking in the vicinity. Bomb Detection Squads with sniffer dogs were rushed to the spot and were checking the entire Besant Road. As a precautionary measure, shop owners closed their establishments.

“We are checking the shops, push carts, canals and on the roadsides with metal detectors. Bomb detection teams were scanning the area thoroughly,” a police officer said.

Meanwhile, police are trying to trace the person who made phone call to the Police Control Room.