Australian Rocker Jimmy Barnes Evacuated From A Hospital After Bomb Scare

A Sydney hospital faced a series of bomb scares on Sep. 15 which led to many patients being evacuated. One of the patients who was evacuated was Australian rocker, Jimmy Barnes.

The bomb scares received by the hospital were threats to Royal Prince Alfred, Royal North Shore, Longueville and Prince of Wales, reported Yahoo News. As a result of it, patients were moved from the top five floors of Prince of Wales private hospital as well as the Royal North Shore hospital, a few of them in wheelchairs.

The singer, a well-known face in the Australian rock scene who has had nine albums in the Australian Top ten, had been rushed to the hospital in early September because of a back problem. As a gesture of good will, he had offered a bag of his spinal fluid.

He had been constantly tweeting about his stay at the hospital, accompanied by photos as well. Barnes recently had a back surgery for which he was recovering. He tweeted about the incident after the evacuation. His tweet went as follows:

Bomb scare at hospital, not panicking but anyone for brain fluid? pic.twitter.com/ElusS6v6qA

— Jimmy Barnes (@JimmyBarnes) September 15, 2014

The singer said that the patients had to be rushed out and so all the drips and everything was just pulled out. Though the situation was very serious, Barnes and Jane, his wife was laughing and joking away.

Daily Mail had spotted Barnes and his wife with a friend when he was chatting with his daughter, Susie, on the phone after the evacuation. When he noticed someone looking at him, he told his daughter that he had to go as someone was trying to get some footage of him. With a sense of humour, he added that though the man seemed like a friendly person, he could lose his film if the bomb went off.

Officers from the Department of Health along with detectives are working towards finding the people responsible for the bomb threats. The bomb threats had come in a few hours after the New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipoine had gone on to brief the state cabinet ministers on terrorist threats. This was a brief after a decision was made to raise the national alert to high.