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BOMB THREAT IN TERNATE NOT LINKED TO `RMS` ANNIVERSARY : POLICE
Ternate, Indonesia, April 25 (ANTARA) - The bomb threat at a clinic here on Saturday morning had nothing to do with the separatist South Maluku Republic (RMS) anniversary, local police chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Solichin said.
"We are still investigating the incident at the community health center (Puskesmas) but we are certain that it has nothing to do with the RMS anniversary on Saturday," Solichin said.
However, he promised to conduct a thorough investigation into the case by tracing the cellular phone number used by an unidentified person who had made the threat.
Solichin called on the people of Ternate to remain calm and vigilant.
Earlier, at 7:30 local time in the morning, workers and patients at the clinic were shocked by a short text massage (SMS), saying that a bomb planted in the building was to explode soon.
Clinic staffers Amria and Merlin said they received identical short text messages containing the bomb threat at 7:30 East Indonesia Time (WIT) from an unidentified person whose cell phone number was 081244689698.
They passed on the message to their colleagues and a number of patients who then ran out of the clinic in panic for fear that the bomb threat would prove to be true.
Amira said she managed to contact the sender of the message at number 081244689698 and the person at the other end said he had sent the SMS from Yogyakarta in Java.
"I asked the person why he had sent such a message but he immediately cut off the communication," Amira said.
Ternate police who received the report about the bomb terror then sent a bomb squad which scoured all floors of the clinic but they did not find any bomb.
Although no bomb was found, the Puskesmas workers and patients who had run out of the clinic were reluctant to return because of trauma.***
"We are still investigating the incident at the community health center (Puskesmas) but we are certain that it has nothing to do with the RMS anniversary on Saturday," Solichin said.
However, he promised to conduct a thorough investigation into the case by tracing the cellular phone number used by an unidentified person who had made the threat.
Solichin called on the people of Ternate to remain calm and vigilant.
Earlier, at 7:30 local time in the morning, workers and patients at the clinic were shocked by a short text massage (SMS), saying that a bomb planted in the building was to explode soon.
Clinic staffers Amria and Merlin said they received identical short text messages containing the bomb threat at 7:30 East Indonesia Time (WIT) from an unidentified person whose cell phone number was 081244689698.
They passed on the message to their colleagues and a number of patients who then ran out of the clinic in panic for fear that the bomb threat would prove to be true.
Amira said she managed to contact the sender of the message at number 081244689698 and the person at the other end said he had sent the SMS from Yogyakarta in Java.
"I asked the person why he had sent such a message but he immediately cut off the communication," Amira said.
Ternate police who received the report about the bomb terror then sent a bomb squad which scoured all floors of the clinic but they did not find any bomb.
Although no bomb was found, the Puskesmas workers and patients who had run out of the clinic were reluctant to return because of trauma.***
