Coimbatore: Explosives detection teams swooped on the Coimbatore Junction railway station after receiving a hoax bomb call at 7am on Friday. Police later detained the caller, identified as Senthilkumar of K Vadamadurai near Thudiyalur. “He called the control room saying that while sleeping on the platform on Thursday night, he heard two people sitting in a train discussing about planting bombs at the station,” a police officer said. Police alerted the government railway police (GRP) and traced the caller’s whereabouts. Bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) personnel of the city police, along with a team of bomb detection squad (BDS) of the railway protection force in Podanur led by sub-inspector Raja, checked passengers, their baggage and the parcel booking office. A sniffer dog was also pressed into service.