KUWAIT CITY, Jan 11, 2010 (AFP) - The Kuwait Stock Exchange building was closed and evacuated on Monday after officials received a bomb threat from an anonymous caller, a security source told AFP.
The call came about 90 minutes after the day's trading ended in the multi-storey building in downtown Kuwait City which also houses a number of commercial offices.
"After receiving the call, we evacuated the building and bomb squads began searching. Part of the building has already been searched and nothing was found," the source said.
Anonymous calls threatening bomb attacks are common in the oil-rich Gulf state, and almost all such scares turn out to be hoaxes. - Zawya