Bomb hoax at Nusabank

Bomb hoax at Nusabank

JAKARTA (JP): A threatening phone call from an unidentified
man led a bomb disposal squad to search the seven-floor Nusabank
office building on Jl. Hasanuddin in South Jakarta yesterday
morning.

After more than an hour of searching, the Jakarta Police team,
consisting of six personnel equipped with bomb detectors, left
the building and gave a hand sign that there was no bomb.

A similar case happened at the 32-floor Jakarta Stock Exchange
building on Jl. Sudirman on June 24.

According to witnesses at the Nusabank building yesterday, the
phone call, sent to advertising company PT Citra Lintas on the
fifth floor, was received by the firm's receptionist, Ella, 22,
at 9:50 a.m.

Ella said that the voice planned to explode the bomb in her
office in the next one hour.

She then reported the threat, saying it came from a man with
an angry voice. The head of the security immediately informed the
nearby Taman Puring police subprecinct.

While waiting for the police, the building's management
publicized the bomb threat and then with the police's help,
evacuated more than 100 workers from the 17 offices in the
building.

"Thank God there was no bomb," a female worker said. "Think
what would have happened if there had been one and it had
exploded," she said. (bsr)