The Broadmarsh bus station was closed to the public following a hoax phone call earlier today.
The incident occurred at 11:20am and the bus station was closed to passenger and vehicles for 20 minutes.
However it was later confirmed the scare was not a genuine threat and the incident was over by 11:40am.
A spokesperson for Nottinghamshire Police said: “Nottinghamshire Police was made aware by security at the Broadmarsh shopping centre of a bomb threat having been made.
“As a result of the call, the shopping centre took the decision to evacuate the bus station as a precaution.The bus station has now been re-opened.
“The call is being treated as a false and malicious phone call.”
The car park was also closed following the incident.
Commuter Derek Manning said: “I was just on the bus waiting for it to come into the bus station. However, it took a turn in a different direction.
“Instead it took me outside the Broadmarsh shopping centre which I know isn’t it’s usual route. I wasn’t sure what was going on.”
People took to Twitter to find out what was going on.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call 101 quoting incident number 244 of 10 May 2016.
