Yesterday afternoon, near to evening time, after my office hour, i sit infront of my PC to enjoy some radio channel. Sudently my collegue - Ibrahim, come in to back office and inform me about some one putting bomb atpenang bridge.
What the Hell!!!bomb the entire bridge will make alot of losses to Malaysia. alot of life will be kill and our economy will down. i really dont understand why those stupid terorist would like to bomb their own places. break their own rice bowl.
later after i went back home, i am chit chating with my net friend about blogging, i show them some of the success blogger, sudently i saw some updated news from lilianchan.blogspot.com , as what i know on this blogger, people call her 5xmom. her blog are very update 7.30PM already make her post on this issue, thats the time i just receive the news at my company
lets see what thestar.com.my said:
PENANG: Thousands of Penangites were caught in a massive evening jam when the Penang Bridge was closed for more than two hours after police received a call that there was a bomb on the bridge.Many motorists heading towards the bridge after work were caught unaware and found themselves in a traffic bottleneck at the Bayan Lepas coastal road leading to the bridge on the island and Seberang Jaya on the mainland.
The bridge was closed to traffic at 4.30pm and only reopened at 7pm.
Traffic had to be diverted to the ferry terminals on both the island and Butterworth, causing George Town and Butterworth town to be choked with cars and motorcycles.
Around the same time the truck was removed, police at the state contingent headquarters operations room received a call saying that there was a bomb on the bridge.
George Town OCPD Asst Comm Azam Abd Hamid said police then alerted Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon and he gave the green light for the police to close the bridge.
“A six-man bomb squad was sent to the bridge immediately. They found a 0.3m-long, 10cm-diameter steel pipe,” ACP Azman later told a press conference at the Northern Region marine police base. “It was suspected that the steel pipe contained explosives. Not taking any risk, the squad detonated it at 6.45pm at the site,” said ACP Azam.
He added that police had earlier informed RTM to announce on air that the bridge would be closed. Messages were later flashed on the electronic signboards advising motorists to use the ferry instead.
Arrangements were also made with the Penang Port authorities to increase the number of ferries to cater to the large number of vehicles heading for the ferry terminals.
Tempers flared on both ends of the bridge as traffic came to a standstill. Irate motorists voiced their frustrations after being stranded for nearly two hours.
