/ 2 June 1999

BOMB THREAT IS GARBAGE

FORENSIC cordite tests indicate that the suspicious parcel police exploded at a polling station in the small farm town of Burgersfort was normal garbage and not a bomb. Police exploded the parcel in a plastic dustbin at the Burgersfort Primary School just after 10.00am on Wednesday after sniffer dogs indicated that it might contain explosives. Lydenburg police explosives head, Inspector Max Golach, personally exploded the dustbin after trained bomb squad dogs repeatedly indicated that it might contain a bomb. No voters were at the polling station at the time.