Man quizzed over shopping mall bomb hoax

MALL DRAMA: Hoax call sparked a bomb alert at the Sahara Centre in Sharjah.

Sharjah Police have arrested a UAE national who allegedly made a hoax bomb call to a shopping centre forcing its evacuation.

The accused is said to have called the Customer Service Desk of Sahara Centre in Sharjah on Sunday morning, claiming a bomb would explode in the mall within three hours.

Sharjah Police evacuated the centre and employed advance technology to detect explosives but they found none, Khaleej Times reported on Tuesday.

Police say the man told them that he committed the act just to entertain himself as he had no work to do.

He has been referred to the Dubai Public Prosecution on charges of providing false information and causing disturbance to police.

Colonel Abdulla Al Dukhan, Deputy Director of Sharjah Police, has warned residents against issuing such hoax calls to create panic among people.

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READERS' COMMENTS

Nothing to do ????
Posted by Rocky, Sharjah, UAE on Tuesday 9 September 2008 at 18:10 UAE time

I think this man should be jailed for a month....only warning is not enough...serious action should be taken against this man and published so that others think million times before doing the same.

Moron
Posted by Asad, Dubai on Tuesday 9 September 2008 at 17:57 UAE time


What a loser to come with such a thing to entertain himself, as if the authorities and emergency services have less work to do. Shame.

Hoax Costs?
Posted by BV, Dubai, UAE on Tuesday 9 September 2008 at 14:38 UAE time

Does anyone else think that "providing false information and causing disturbance to police" is a bit of a light charge? What about the loss of revenue that all the shops in the Mall suffered? I think this man should be made to compensate the shop owners and the mall itself for wasting their time and causing their loss of revenue. That will set an appropriate example.
As for committing "the act just to entertain himself as he had no work to do"... Get a job and do something useful.

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