Bomb found in traffic police post

Bomb found in traffic police post

BANDA ACEH, Aceh: Aceh Besar police found a handmade bomb left by unidentified persons at a traffic police post on Simpang Jam, Taman Sari, in downtown Banda Aceh on Tuesday, thanks to passers- by.

Deputy chief of the security restoration operation Comr. Miyanto said on Tuesday that the handmade bomb equipped with a timer had been detonated by the Aceh police's bomb-squad.

Miyanto said that witnesses reported seeing two unidentified people on a motorbike stop at the traffic police post at 6:30 a.m. and leave behind a package wrapped in a red plastic bag.

"According to the timer, the TNT explosive should have exploded at 8 a.m.," he said.

Miyanto speculated that the explosives had been planted by members of Free Aceh Movement (GAM). "They just wanted to announce that they still exist." --Antara