The main railway station in Geneva, western Switzerland, was closed and evacuated for about two hours on Tuesday afternoon following a bomb alert.

Swiss Federal Railways said the evacuation was carried out just after 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. GMT) according to orders of the police, who earlier received an anonymous telephone call saying an explosive device had been put in the railway station.

But after a search, police later said the station was safe and no explosive device had been found.

More than 10,000 passengers had their journeys disrupted because of the incident.  

(Xinhua News Agency October 11, 2006)