Tamil Nadu and other cities to experience terror attacks. Details inside

Lucknow: The Tamil Nadu Government on Friday issued an alert to all senior police officers and the district collectors directing them to take “precautionary measures” to maintain law and order and to avert any untoward incident, following a phone call from a truck driver warning of terror attacks.

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It had been brought to the notice of the government that a man claiming to be a lorry driver named Swamy Sundar Murthy, calling from phone number 6361093152, claiming to be on his way to Hosur (Tamil Nadu) called up the control room of the Bangalore city police at 5.35 pm on Friday to warn of terror attacks, said a fax communication from the state public secretary to the police and revenue officials in the state.

“He was speaking in Tamil and broken Hindi. He claims to have information to the effect that major cities in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra will be hit by terror attacks. The terror attacks will take place on trains”, said the communication.

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He further claimed that there are 19 terrorists present at Ramanathapuram.

Efforts by this reporter to reach the caller on the phone number given in the government communication did not succeed. The call was not going through.