Bomb hoax at Menara BCD

Bomb hoax at Menara BCD

JAKARTA: The Menara BCD office building on Jl. Jend. Sudirman
Kav. 26, Central Jakarta, was the subject of a bomb hoax on
Wednesday at 9:20 a.m.

The threat forced the building's management, PT Nico Central,
to evacuate some 500 workers from 50 companies, mostly foreign
ones, from the building.

PT Nico Central receptionist, Maemunah, received a phone call
from an unidentified man saying that a bomb had been planted on
the first floor of the building.

Maemunah, who worked on the eighth floor, reported the call to
security.

Eight officers from the city police bomb squad arrived at the
building an hour later. They thoroughly searched the 21-story
building but did not find any bomb at all.

The situation returned to normal at around 2:30 p.m. but some
of the employees were reportedly reluctant to go back to their
offices and preferred to go home instead. -- JP