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