Shillong, March 2: An unidentified person left a suitcase inside a taxi here this evening, triggering a “bomb scare”.

Around 6.30pm, the driver of the taxi (ML05-D 3620), stationed opposite Synod Complex near Mawkhar, a busy hub, alerted police that there was a passenger had left a suitcase in his vehicle.

Soon after, the police and personnel from the disposal squad bomb rushed to the spot to check whether there was a bomb inside the abandoned suitcase.

As the police carried out the verification, traffic came to a standstill. The police also tried to disperse the large crowd that had gathered near the spot.

After around half-an-hour, the police declared that there was no bomb inside the suitcase. It had clothes in it.