IPOH: About 80 staff from an investment bank at Jalan Seenivasagam here had to vacate the outlet when an unidentified man made a hoax bomb call at noon today.
District police chief Assistant Commissioner Sum Chang Keong said the bank alerted police at 12.06pm after receiving the call about 20 minutes earlier.
He said the caller claimed that he would place an explosive inside the bank.
However, police confirmed that the threat was a hoax when they were unable to find such an object, despite the help of the bomb disposal unit and K9 units.
He said the bank was allowed to resume operation about three hours later. Police are now in the midst of tracking the prank caller.