Thursday, July 29, 2010

Bomb scare at e.tv's office in Cape Town has building evacuated for an hour.

There was a bomb scare at e.tv's offices in Cape Town yesterday that lead to the evacuation of the building in Darters Road for about an hour.

Staff I spoke to (some didn't want to) tell me they were scared, but have confindence in the security e.tv employs. What happened was that a man showed up yesterday morning at around 10:00 at the Long Kloof Studios where e.tv is based and insisted on speaking to the news editor. When he couldn't, he started screaming and threatened that he was going to blow up the place. The police were called at around 10:10 after which e.tv was evacuated and sniffer dogs sent in. The staff of 250 returned re-entered the building about an hour later at 11:00.