Bomb Hoax at Saudia Offices

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Staff Writer
Publication Date: 
Thu, 2003-03-20 03:00

JEDDAH, 20 March 2003 — Security personnel evacuated the main offices of Saudi Arabian Airlines here yesterday after an unidentified caller claimed there were explosives in the building, a spokesman said.

“After evacuating employees... in coordination with security and government authorities and taking the necessary measures, nothing was found” and it turned out to be a hoax, said the airline’s spokesman.

The caller told the telephone operator at 8:50 a.m. that a quantity of explosives had been placed on the fifth floor of the airline’s administrative offices in Jeddah. A major shopping mall in the heart of Jeddah was evacuated on March 8 after private security guards found objects that looked like dynamite sticks. It proved to be hoax.

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