Labeling mix-up triggers bomb scare

ILOILO CITY — A mix-up in the labeling of a package triggered Tuesday evening’s bomb scare at the Kalibo International Airport, according to police.

After hours of tests and inspections, the package was found to contain a used electric motor brake of a golf cart from Boracay Island, said Senior Supt. Cornelio Defensor, Aklan police director.

“There was no explosive device found and we did not detonate anything contrary to some news reports that came out,” Defensor told the Inquirer in a telephone interview yesterday.

But the sender of one of two packages whose labels were interchanged by the cargo forwarder LBC Express said he was subjected to police investigation and policemen even went to his house in Sultan Kudarat and asked for photographs of his.

Student Michael Agravante was also briefly questioned at the Iloilo airport yesterday morning but was allowed by security personnel to board a plane to Davao after the Aklan police said he had already been cleared. /INQUIRER