JAPAN: SEVERAL FOREIGN FINANCIAL OFFICES EVACUATED IN TOKYO BECAUSE OF BOMB THREATS

Record ID: 230528

  • Title: JAPAN: SEVERAL FOREIGN FINANCIAL OFFICES EVACUATED IN TOKYO BECAUSE OF BOMB THREATS
  • Date: 18th September 2001
  • Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (SEPTEMBER 18, 2001)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN UP/ EXTERIOR OF AKASAKA PARK BUILDING (*2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. SLV PEOPLE EVACUATED FROM BUILDING 0.16 3. SMV POLICEMEN WALKING 0.21 4. SLV EVACUATED WORKERS 0.27 5. LAV OF BUILDING 0.33 6. GV MEDIA HELICOPTER HOVERING OVER BUILDING 0.38 7. SCU AKASAKA PARK BUILDING SIGN 0.43 8. SMV SECURITY GUARD 0.47 9. SCU "CLOSED" SIGN ON DOOR 0.51 10. SLV POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS BUILDING 0.55 11. VARIOUS, OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 1.06 12. GV, BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 1.16 13. SCU (SOUNDBITE)(English) FRANK CAVALLO SAYING: "There was a call to one of the companies, to the switchboard, which said 'we are going to blow up the building', that is the only thing I heard." 1.26 14. SCU (SOUNDBITE)(Japanese) MRS. ISOMURA 62, WOMAN SAYING: "There was an announcement that a bomb had been planted in Citibank so we were evacuated." 1.34 15. SCU (SOUNDBITE)(Japanese) 32-YEAR-OLD SECURITY GUARD TATSUYA TAKEDA SAYING: "There was a call that explosives had been planted in Citibank offices around the Tokyo and would explode at 2:30 p.m. (0530GMT) and everyone working in the building is currently being moved to safety." 1.59 16. VARTIOUS, PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 2.13 17. PAN UP OF BUILDING 2.19 18. WIDE/ PAN OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 2.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVAEV72EN33AM9P41QJ1IIQWJRDX
  • Story Text: Several high-rise office buildings in Tokyo that house
    foreign financial firms have been evacuated after a bomb
    threat.



    Employees at the Akasaka Park Building in downtown
    Tokyo on Tuesday (September 18) were milling around outside
    after having been notified to evacuate.

    "There was a call to one of the companies, to the
    switchboard, which said 'we are going to blow up the
    building', that is the only thing I heard," said Frank
    Cavallo, one of the people who had been evacuated.

    "There was an announcement that a bomb had been planted in
    Citibank so we were evacuated," said a 62-year-old coffee shop
    lady.

    "There was a call that explosives had been planted in
    Citibank offices around the Tokyo and would explode at 2:30
    p.m. (0530GMT) and everyone working in the building is
    currently being moved to safety" added 32-year-old security
    guard Tatsuya Takeda.

    Separately, a police spokesman said an unidentified person
    had called two of Tokyo's top hotels, the Hotel Okura and
    Hotel New Otani, and told them bombs had been planted in
    the hotels.

    But the hotels said police investigations revealed no
    bombs and the hotels were operating normally.

    A witness at the Tokyo Bankers' Association building in
    Otemachi, another financial district, said people in the
    building had been told to leave following an apparent bomb
    threat against Citibank, which occupies four floors in the
    building.

    Citibank officials could not be reached for comment.

    Witnesses and police said later that the buildings which
    had been evacuated had been been declared safe and people were
    returning to their offices.



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