Chief of the Medan Baru city police Adj. Comr Donny Allexander said police were still investigating the identity of the person who sent a box wrapped in yellow paper. The box was believed to contain explosives.
He said the investigation would be conducted based on the identity of the person caught on CCTV installed at the bank office. Police would also interrogate a number of witnesses.
"Police officers are working extra hard to gather any piece of information to investigate the sender of the package believed to contain a bomb," he said.
The parcel was strongly believed to contain a bomb because the bank`s employee who received the parcel did not know the sender at all, he said.
The city police later reported the parcel to the bomb-defusing squad of the mobile brigade (Brimob) unit of the North Sumatra provincial police, he said.
The bomb-defusing squad came to the scene to check the parcel.
"The parcel was put into a safety tube and taken to the Brimob station to be checked and destroyed," he said. (*)
Editor: Kunto Wibisono
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