More than 1,500 people were evacuated Monday from a clothes market in Russia's Samara city for a bomb threat, reported Interfax news agency.

After an unknown man called the police at noon and claimed there was a bomb at the market, the local police arrived immediately and started the evacuation, said a Samara regional police spokesman.

According to the spokesman, so far the police were still searching for the bomb with the assistance of the market security.

Interfax said the Samara Kirovsky clothes market had bomb incidents before. In June, a 15-year-old boy was injured in the market by a mini-bomb made by a paint can. An explosion at the same market killed 11 people in 2004.

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