VIDEO and AUDIO INTERVIEWS: No bomb found at Du Toit-Smuts and Partners

MBOMBELA –  Police have confirmed that no bomb was found at the local law firm Du Toit-Smuts&Partners. This after the law firm received four anonymous calls that there was a bomb in their building.

The bomb squad on the scene carefully opened a suspicious package after three police dogs alerted them to it.  The package was taken out onto the road where a bomb technician carefully checked the contents.

At 12:15 Lowvelder reported: 

MBOMBELA – Police are still searching the premises of local law firm Du Toit-Smuts & Partners.

The firm received a bomb threat via telephone call this morning. Its employees have evacuated the building. The police’s bomb squad were deployed to the scene and are still determining whether there is a bomb inside.

Meanwhile, police spokesman Capt Dawie Pretorius spoke to Lowvelder. Click here for his two-part interview:

Josef Schabort, a partner with the firm, spoke to Lowvelder crime reporter, Tereasa Dias.

At 11:30, Lowvelder reported:

MBOMBELA – The police’s bomb squad have been deployed at a local attorney’s firm targeted by a bomb threat this morning.

One of the firm’s partners spoke to Lowvelder at 11:11.

“We received an anonymous telephone call,” he said. The caller said that there was a bomb in the building. Employees immediately vacated that building and the crime scene was barricaded with crime scene tape.

Nobody is allowed in or out of there.

This is a developing story. Lowvelder will keep readers updated.