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.