Bomb drill at Subang Parade alarms residents and shoppers

A screen grab of a video capturing the bomb drill, by Facebook user Julius Lok Juin Chern.

SUBANG JAYA: Everyone can breath a sigh of relief, there is no bomb scare in Subang Parade. It was just a police drill.

Fears that something sinister was brewing in the shopping mall, when residents here woke up to find police vehicles and yellow tape surrounding the complex at about 9am Monday.

“Please avoid Subang Parade for now. Apparently they found a bomb there. Whole place is off limits to vehicles and humans. Not sure what happened, please take note all my Subang friends,” said Facebook user Julius Lok Juin Chern, who posted a video of an eeriely empty Subang Parade with policemen at the scene.

The Bukit Aman bomb data centre, when contacted, however said that the department had not received any alert of a bomb scare in the shopping mall.

“Its a bomb drill. We were doing it as part of a training for the staff at the mall,” said Subang Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Yahaya Ramli.

However, the police did not circulate a notice informing residents in the area that the drill would be performed today.

ACP Yahaya said over 10 police officers were deployed for the drill.