DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines-–Police cordoned off a section of a busy street here on Tuesday afternoon after a box was left at the door of a police precinct here.
Superintendent Christopher Abrahano, the city’s police chief, said a policeman noticed the box at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday and immediately reported it to him.
Abrahano sent a team to secure the area, which was at the back of one of the buildings of the Dagupan City National High School and in front of a gasoline station, stalling traffic for almost an hour.
Inspector Gerardo Macaraeg, a bomb expert, inspected the package and found a transistor radio without batteries inside the box.
“We were just being careful,” Abrahano said.
Why anyone would leave a transistor radio at the doorstep of a police station was not immediately clear. Police speculated it may have been the work of a prankster or someone else may have simply forgotten it there and was too afraid to retrieve it afterward, seeing the buzz it had stirred.
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