As many as three five-star hotels in the city received bomb threat, police sources said on Thursday.

The hotels reportedly received the threat via email, leading to exhaustive search operations. It later turned out to be a hoax, they said.

The threat comes against the backdrop of a bomb blast in Rameshwaram Cafe in the city on March 1.

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