Fri, 14 Jul 2000

Bomb found at shopping mall

SEMARANG, Central Java: Police found a small unexploded bomb at a shopping mall here on Wednesday night.

Police sent a bomb-squad after being alerted by a shop attendant at the Citraland shopping mall who had, some 30 minutes earlier, been called by an unidentified man claiming that a bomb had been planted in the mall.

Police said that the one kilogram explosive was put inside a box and that the message "revoke the military sociopolitical role" was written on it. (har)