More than 10,000 people are evacuated in Shifang City of Southwest China's Sichuan Province after a 15-year-old boy makes a bomb threat. (Photo/Chengdu Business Daily)
(ECNS) -- Police rushed to evacuate more than 10,000 people in a southwestern city in China after a 15-year-old boy made a bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax, Chengdu Business Daily reported.
The out-of-school teenager lived with his father, who was separated from his mother, in Shifang City of Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Due to a lack of parental guidance, the boy was often idle and had run away several times.
At about 8.30pm on May 28, he called local police and said there would be bomb blasts in two hours at the city's Zhuxi Park, where many residents walk in the evening.
About 140 police officers and several police cars were quickly mobilized to evacuate residents and nearby merchants. A thorough search found no explosives.
Police later caught the boy, who said he made the call because he was bored and hadn't thought through the consequences.
The juvenile would face administrative punishment, local media reported.
