IPOH: Police have arrested seven people in connection with a bomb scare at a fast food outlet in Ipoh Garden here last night.
District police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Ali Tamby said the suspects, aged between 20 and 33, were all employees of the fast food outlet.
They have been remanded for four days until Dec 11 to facilitate police investigation, he said when contacted today.
In the 9pm incident yesterday, about 20 workers and customers at a fast food outlet here were ordered to vacate the premises following a bomb threat.
A bomb squad from the Perak police headquarters was deployed to the scene and following a one and a half hour of inspection, announced it as a hoax and declared the building safe. — BERNAMA