An email sent to the Tamil Nadu Director General of Police’s office (DGP) on Friday (October 10) warning of a bomb threat to the Puthiya Thalaimurai TV channel office in Chennai caused panic among the employees.

Police rushed to the TV channel’s office in Ekkattuthangal near Guindy and immediately evacuated all the employees.

They searched the premises with bomb detectors and a sniffer dog.

After a 90-minute thorough search of the whole building, the police said the building was safe and that the bomb threat was a hoax.

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