KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 – Two Korean tourists left their backpacks under a chair caused a bomb scare at a shopping mall here today. Police said the two women had left the backpacks, which were found to contain clothes, under a seat on the second floor of the Pavilion shopping centre at about 12.30pm.
Dang Wangi OCPD Asst Comm Zainol Samah said the management called the police after waiting half an hour for the bags to be collected. According to Star Online, he said thirty minutes after waiting for the owners to retrieve their bags, the management decided to call us for fear of the public’s safety.
He said a bomb disposal unit was immediately deployed to the scene where the bags were checked and all we found were clothes. The women, in their 20s and 40s, arrived back in three hour to collect their bags and they were taken in for questioning. They told us that they wanted to go shopping, that was why they left the bags there. In the meantime, ACP Zainol also said that they have been released after questioning.
