Gift sparks bomb scare
2006-05-09 12:48
Tokyo - Two bags with a note warning they would blow up if opened triggered a bomb alert at a Japanese university - before explosives experts found they contained women's underwear and a chocolate cake.
Police evacuated Kyushu University's pharmacology department
in southern Japan early on Tuesday and called in the bomb squad
after a staff member found a white paper bag with a note that
said "To Yoko, if you open this it will explode" and a pink
plastic bag marked "This one too".
The paper bag contained the cake and the plastic bag the
underwear, a spokesperson for Fukuoka prefectural police said.
Two female students of the department had meant the parcels
as a birthday present for a friend, writing the note because they thought it would stop anyone from touching the bags.
They left them in the post room on Monday night, emailing their friend to tell her to collect them.
The friend, however, forgot.
The police spokesperson said the two were being questioned about
the incident but it was too early to say if they would be charged.
- Reuters