Toy rifle sets off alarm bells in hospital in south

Toy rifle sets off alarm bells in hospital in south

NIS -- A pensioner who decided to take a toy rifle to his grandson receiving treatment in a hospital Nis, southern Serbia, "set off the alarm bells" there on Tuesday.

The Belgrade-based daily Blic writes that the incident happened at the Clinical Center, where the security, along with members of the intervention unit of the local police thought real weapons had been brought into the hospital.

The elderly man was reported entering the neurology ward around 11:00 CET "carrying a sawed-off rifle," causing both the security and the police to react.

Two teams of intervention police quickly arrived and started searching the building, "but realized after several minutes that there was no reason to panic," and that the report was "a false alarm."

The police found the toy rifle in the possession of the boy to whom it was brought as a present, the daily said.