Palembang gets bomb scare

Palembang gets bomb scare

PALEMBANG, South Sumatra: A major shopping center here was the
latest victim of a bomb scare after a general hospital and the
Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Mosque received similar threats.

Antara reported that an owner of the International Plaza
shopping center, Huzaini Rozak, received a call from an
unidentified man at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The caller said a
bomb was about to go off in the building.

He immediately notified the police who asked him to cut short
the mall's operating hours. Surprised shoppers promptly left the
building.

Shortly after, the police's bomb disposal unit arrived and
checked the shopping center from the ground floor up to the
fifth, but no bomb was found.