Bomb hoax plotter at large

MEDAN: The police still have no clue as to who left a hoax bomb in a Bank Danamon automatic teller machine booth at Polonia Airport here Monday, police said yesterday.

"The authorities have no one to suspect yet," spokesman for the local Bukit Barisan regional military command Lt. Col. Agus Ramadhan said.

The hoax bomb triggered panic at the airport as dozens of police and troops were called in to cordon off the location and diffuse the "bomb".

Police said the device was contained in a cardboard box 20 cm high by 40 cm wide with "Bring prices down or this will happen here" and "Explosive with remote" written on the side.

Agus said the device contained sulfur, wheat powder and asbestos pipes.

On Monday, the local bomb squad took two hours to decide the suspicious object was not a bomb and posed no threat. (21)