American Man Arrested After Bomb Threat

An American native reportedly threatened to blow up the Central Tower, located at the heart of the city on the east side of Sukhbaatar Square, at around 4:00 p.m. on January 9.

Local media report that the suspect demanded to meet the Canadian Ambassador at the Canadian Embassy on the sixth floor of the Central Tower and threatened to set off a bomb when he wasn't able to meet him.

According to a spokesperson from the General Police Department, a 51-year-old US citizen was taken into custody as suspect of a bomb attack. The police searched the site, but did not find a bomb.

Most local media report that the suspect wanted to meet the Canadian ambassador, but a source close to the issue claimed that the suspect demanded to meet the Danish ambassador at around 4:00 p.m., but seemed to misunderstand when a receptionist who was on the 15th floor of the Central Tower told him that there wasn't a Danish Embassy in the Central Tower. The source added that it's uncertain whether the suspect really threatened to blow off the place, and that security guards and the police came soon after.

Sukhbaatar District police and emergency rescuers arrived at the scene by 5:44 p.m. and instructed people inside the building to evacuate and searched for a bomb in the building.

At 6:45, the police set up a 200-meter command post and stood on guard outside to...