RI consulate in Penang gets suspicious mail

RI consulate in Penang gets suspicious mail

A suspicious package was sent to the Indonesian consulate in Malaysia's northern Penang state in the latest of a series of security scares at diplomatic missions in the country, reports said on Sunday.

Police were searching for a man who was filmed by a closed circuit camera as he handed an envelope to a security guard at the mission on Saturday evening, Penang police chief Christopher Wan Soo Kee told the Bernama news agency.

The package contained eight screwdrivers and a five-centimeter-long bottle filled with a liquid that was now being analyzed, he said.

The head of the Indonesian Students' Association in Penang, Made Jaafar, told Bernama he had seen a Caucasian man hand over the package before fleeing.

Last week a dozen diplomatic missions in the Malaysian capital were sent suspicious packages by express mail, containing compact discs and threatening notes seeking justice over the perceived mistreatment of Muslims.

Most have contained liquids or powders that have been sent for analysis.

Authorities have said they suspect the packages are part of a prank following the latest deadly bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali.

The packages started arriving on Tuesday afternoon at the diplomatic missions of Japan, Germany, Thailand, Canada, the Philippines and Singapore.

The United States, Russia, Britain, France and Australia received packages Wednesday morning, the European Commission got one on Thursday, and Spain received one on Friday. -- AFP