Bomb scare hits Camp Karingal

MANILA, Philippines - Inmates detained at Camp Karingal in Quezon City panicked Sunday night due to a bomb scare.

Jail warden Chief Inspector Elena Rocamora said she received a text message from an unidentified sender, saying a bomb planted inside the female inmates’ quarters would explode any time.

However, a search of the premises yielded no bomb.

Inspector Noel Sublay, head of the Quezon City Police District’s Explosives and Ordnance Division, said the bomb threat was reported to them at 7:30 p.m.

Sublay said the texter claimed that the explosive was planted by a male visitor.