Live grenade found in St. Carolus Hospital<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Patients and hospital staff were in shock on
\nTuesday afternoon after a live hand grenade was found in a
\nwarehouse of the St. Carolus Hospital, on Jl. Salemba Raya in
\nCentral Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The National Police bomb squad safely removed the grenade from
\nthe warehouse, called the Semar Ward, where the hospital's oxygen
\ntanks are stored.<\/p>\n
Central Jakarta police chief Sr. Comr. Mathius Salempang said
\nthat the grenade had been taken to the National Police Mobile
\nBrigade Headquarters in Kelapa Dua, Bogor, for further
\nexamination and identification.<\/p>\n
\"The grenade needs to be examined before I can make a
\nstatement,\" he said, adding that the explosive device was found
\nby a hospital staff member.<\/p>\n
The warehouse, Mathius said, faces the main road of Jl.
\nSalemba Raya.<\/p>\n
The evacuation process resulted in panic, with visitors
\nhurriedly running out of the hospital, after rumors circulated
\nthat the pin of the grenade had already been removed.<\/p>\n
Director of St. Carolus Hospital Waskito Budi Waluyo told
\nreporters that the hospital had received a threat via facsimile
\nfrom an unidentified person two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
\"The sender had threatened that if this hospital did not
\ntransfer Rp 30 million to an account at Bank Central Asia (BCA),
\nthe hospital would be bombed,\" Waskito said.<\/p>\n
\"However, the sender had given a deadline of 1 p.m. on the day
\nthe fax was sent.\" (ylt\/01)<\/p>",
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