Globe’s Tallest Buildings Forced to Evacuate
The world’s tallest buildings, Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Twin Towers, were evacuated after a bomb threat.
The threat came during morning work hours, about 12 hours after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
Police confirmed that a threat had been phoned in from a public telephone to Petronas’ building management about 8:30 a.m. and that the caller said that a bomb would explode at 9 a.m.
Police said that people would be allowed to return to work once the building was declared safe.
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