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Building hosting Malaysian stock exchange evacuated over bomb threat

Xinhua, September 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

A building in downtown Kuala Lumpur that hosts Bursa Malaysia, or the Malaysian Stock Exchange, was evacuated on Friday after the management office of the building received a bomb threat.

Bursa Malaysia said in a statement that it has notified the authorities about the threat, which was received at 12:01 p.m., and evacuated all tenants and staff in the building "as a precaution."

Video footage posted on social networking sites show that hundreds of people gathered outside the building with the police cordoning off the area.

A report from Oriental Daily estimated that more than 600 Bursa Malaysia staff and another 2,000 staff from Astro Awani, a satellite TV network and HSBC, work at the building.

The exchange said Business Continuity Plans have been activated. Stock quotes posted by its website at 14:31 showed that normal trading activity has resumed. Endit