Suspicious package at Bank Mandiri

Suspicious package at Bank Mandiri

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: The East Nusa Tenggara Police bomb
squad found a suspicious package at the local Bank Mandiri branch
on Thursday.

The discovery of the package was made hours after the bank
received a phoned-in bomb threat.

An unidentified man called the Kupang branch of Bank Mandiri
at 10:46 a.m. and threatened to blow up the bank.

The man said he had placed a package on the ground floor of
the bank that would explode within an hour.

"I conveyed the message to my superiors, who immediately
reported the threat to the police," said Linda, who received the
telephone call.

It was not immediately clear whether the package that was
found on the ground floor did contain explosives.

Denis Leihutu, the chief of the bomb squad, said a preliminary
investigation of the scene indicated that the bomb threat was a
hoax.

The seven-story State Financa building in Kupang received a
similar threat on Tuesday from a caller who claimed to have
planted a bomb on the second floor of the building. No explosives
were found. --JP