It's 'only a brick' at 'RRI'

It's 'only a brick' at 'RRI'

JAKARTA (JP): The National Police bomb squad revealed Tuesday
that the object originally believed to have been an explosive
device at the state-run Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) building
in Central Jakarta was "merely a brick", an officer has said.

"We've been fooled again, it's only a brick," a source at the
squad told The Jakarta Post.

According to the officer, the brick was neatly wrapped with
bundles of papers and a white plastic sheet.

As has been reported earlier, the object was found on Monday
evening by the squad members on the second floor of the eight-
story RRI building on Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat.

The team rushed to the site following emergency calls about a
bomb threat received by an on-duty broadcaster.

The source said that similar objects thought to be bombs taken
from the BNI 46 tower on Jl. Sudirman recently were also "just
bricks".

"What we took from the BNI tower were also bricks wrapped in
papers put inside plastic bags," the source said. (emf)