TIA Correspondent//

Several trains were delayed and some diverted after a bomb scare at New Delhi Railway station on today morning. Lucknow- Delhi Shatabdi express train also evacuated at Ghaziabad railway station for thorough checkup before it departed.

According to initial reports, the Railway Board was informed by Mumbai ATS after latter received an e-mail threatening of bomb blast on Delhi-Kanpur train. In its letter to the New Delhi Railway Station officials, Delhi Police asked them to thoroughly check and sanitise all the trains between New Delhi and Kanpur before letting them depart.

The letter says that the sender has threatened to explode the trains within next 72 hours. Delhi and other neighbouring state are on a high alert following a terror attack on Pathankot Air Force base on Saturday.