Update: The call was a hoax.
Bengaluru’s Embassy Tech Village, situated on Outer Ring Road received a bomb threat call on Friday, 8 June, after which employees of organisations in the park were asked to assemble at a safe point. The threat call was received at the Cisco office located inside the tech park.
Thousands of employees working at organisations such as Sony, Cisco and were evacuated at around 2 pm. The Sony office has been sealed. Bomb squads and sniffer dogs are at the spot.
DCP Whitefield Abdul Ahad confirmed that a threat call was received, and was likely a prank. As many as 7,000 employees were evacuated, the police added.
“Yes, a threat call which we believe is mostly a prank call received around 1 pm. Someone speaking in Hindi said there would be a bomb blast in 10 minutes. The call was received at the Cisco office at Embassy Tech Village, which is next to Cessna Business Park in Marathahalli,” the DCP said.
We have evacuated people and the bomb squad is at the spot, which is a standard operating procedure. The call came as a VoIP call. We have contacted Cyber Crime to trace the call.Abdul Ahad, DCP, Whitefield
Located at the Outer Ring Road in Bengaluru, Embassy Tech Village hosts a group of multinational companies like Cisco, Altimerk, Moody’s Analytics, Sony and Wells Fargo.
A lot of employees have tweeted that they have been asked to assemble at safe points outside the building.
However, some employees alleged that while the police had asked the tech park to not let people to enter the buildings for two hours, some organisations were forcing their employees to get back to their desks.
"We did not get an email communication about the threat. And after we gathered at the safe assembly space, we were informed by Embassy Tech Park that no one should enter for two hours. However, our organisation started calling us on phone, and asked us to get back to work.
The security at individual buildings are already letting people back inside," a person who works at an IT company in the tech park said.
(This story was originally published on The News Minute and has been republished here with permission)
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