MALOLOS CITY – Court employees at the Bulacan Regional Trial Court scampered out of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan building here after a bomb threat was received before the regular flag raising ceremony on Monday morning.
Police investigators said that a phone call from an unknown male was received by the Tactical Operation Center (TOC) of the Bulacan Police Provincial Office at Camp Alejo Santos.
The caller claimed that four bombs were allegedly planted and about to explode in the three buildings of Bulacan RTC and at the vicinity of the nearby Mini Forest, all located at the provincial capitol compound.
Police Senior Supt. Romeo Caramat Jr., Bulacan PNP acting provincial director said that the phone call was received at around 7:15 a.m. Monday.
Caramat said that he immediately dispatched his men from the Special Weapon And Tactics (SWAT) and Bomb Squad Unit from the Bulacan PNP headquarters and operatives of the Malolos City Police Station.
Police informed the Bulacan RTC regarding the received report and ordered all the employees to vacate the building for inspection.
The old RTC Bldg. 1 is located beside the Capitol Gym while the two other buildings is situated 20 meters away from the old RTC building where the Provincial Prosecutors Office is also located at the second floor of Bldg. 2.
The Mini Forest is a place where students from the Bulacan State University (BulSU) usually stay. It is located infront of the Bulacan RTC and Capitol Gym with an area of 1.5 hectares.
After two hours of inspection by the dispatched team from the said police units, it was turned out that it is again a “hoax call” and later on declared safe and cleared.
The regular hearings resumed at 9:30 a.m. (PNA)/JMC/zst/EGGamos