Message about bomb in Moscow's Central Department Store is false

The security services have not found an explosive device in the Moscow Central Department Store after a call about a bomb, a source in the Moscow police reports.

"At 15:31 a survey of the Department Store was completed, and an explosive device was not found," the spokesman said, adding that the bomb threat has been lifted, RIA Novosti reports.

Today after a call about a bomb in of one of the largest and most expensive department stores in Moscow - the Moscow Central Department Store (TsUM) - about a thousand people were evacuated. According to the Interior Ministry in Moscow only about 200 people were evacuated.