Bomb hoax at UN office

JAKARTA: An eight-member team of the police bomb squad checked the UN office on Jl. MH Thamrin, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday in a futile search for explosives following a bomb threat.

At 11:30 a.m., after a one-hour check, the police declared the office safe and left.

"We did not find any bomb as claimed through a phone call to the UN office," Comr. Syajar Diantono of the Menteng Police was quoted by detik.com as saying.

An anonymous caller phoned the office at 9:05 a.m. and said: "I have sent something like in Bali."

The police have received reports of more than 20 bomb threats after the Oct. 12 Bali incident. All of the calls were hoaxes.--JP