Novotel hotel gets bomb threat

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