Fire guts homes in Tubagus Angke
Fire guts homes in Tubagus Angke
JAKARTA: Dozens of homes in a slum near Tubagus Angke railway station in West Jakarta were gutted by fire on Saturday at about 9:20 p.m., but there were no reports of casualties.
Some 80 fire-fighters, who arrived on 20 fire trucks, had difficulty extinguishing the fire as they could not find adequate water sources, Ali Baskoro, one of the fire-fighters, said.
"We also tried to determine where the fire started," Baskoro said.
Residents living near the fire scene assisted the fire- fighters in finding water sources.
The losses caused by the fire were still being assessed, Baskoro said.
Meanwhile, police have temporarily closed the area around the fire scene on Jl. Tubagus Angke. --Antara
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Novotel hotel gets bomb threat
BOGOR: The peaceful atmosphere of Bogor, West Java, was suddenly disturbed by a bomb threat at Novotel hotel on Saturday morning.
The threat, however, proved to be a hoax after a police bomb squad called in to search the building found nothing suspicious, Bogor Police chief Sen. Com. Anton Bachrul Alam said.
The bomb threat was conveyed by a male phone caller who spoke to the hotel receptionist.
At almost the same time, a rumor started circulating among hotel guests that the body of a staff member of the coordinating ministry for political and security affairs had been found floating in the hotel's swimming pool.
"According to the Sukaraja police chief, no corpse was floating in the Novotel hotel's swimming pool," said Bogor Police deputy chief Comr. Rusdi Hartono. --Antara
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Aspiring actress cries foul
JAKARTA: A 39-year-old man was reported the police on Sunday by Anita Mulyani, 21, who accused him of posing as a director and falsely promising to give her a role in his television soap opera.
The woman told police that Yayan Suryana, the alleged bogus director, swindled her out of Rp 4.5 million (about US$553.50).
Anita said Yayan introduced himself as a film and television director and assured her that she could have a role in his current project if she paid an administration fee of Rp 4.5 million at Pink Production House at Jl. Raya Caman in Bekasi, West Java.
She made the payment in early May but Yayan continued to delay the soap opera shoot, citing bad weather as the reason.
Mulyani eventually demanded that Yayan return her money. However, the suspect fled his house.
Police said they would investigate the case.--Antara