Transport Malta offices evacuated after hoax call

Five months after the explosion at Transport Malta’s Sa Maison offices, employees were yesterday evacuated after an anonymous caller said there was a bomb. The call, made at 10.30 a.m., was found to be a hoax when members of the armed forces’ bomb...

Five months after the explosion at Transport Malta’s Sa Maison offices, employees were yesterday evacuated after an anonymous caller said there was a bomb.

The call, made at 10.30 a.m., was found to be a hoax when members of the armed forces’ bomb disposal unit searched the building.

The police said Transport Malta’s Floriana offices were also evacuated and searched as a precaution.

On December 2, a handmade bomb was dangled outside TM’s second floor office window at Sa Maison and went off while a meeting was in progress.

Major Peter Ripard, a traffic consultant, lost his left leg in the blast and Konrad Pulé, the chief officer of land transport within the authority, was slightly injured.

Police are carrying out further investigations.

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