Probe launchedA woman shopper stands outside the Kingdom Tower in Riyadh following its evacuation Wednesday. - Okaz photoRIYADH – Special security forces evacuated on Wednesday all shoppers and staff from Kingdom Tower in downtown Riyadh after receiving a report of a bomb in an employee's car in the car park. After receiving the report, teams from the Civil Defense, the police and the bomb unit rushed to the scene and evacuated the location of all shoppers, employees and workers. They cordoned off the entire area. Lt. Col. Sami Al-Shuwairikh, spokesman for the Riyadh Region's police said that the security authorities received a report from one of the employees of Saudi American Bank at Kingdom Tower saying that he had received a telephone call from an unidentified person saying that his car would explode in an hour. According to Al-Shuwairikh, the security authorities dealt with the situation with the help of specialists from the Weapons and Explosives Administration and the CID. It turned out that it was a bomb hoax. He said the security authorities are tracing the source of the telephone call so that the caller can be identified and handed over to the relevant authorities. Shortly afterwards, life returned to normal on Al-Olayya Main Street in the commercial heart of Riyadh after the security forces confirmed that the shopping center, which is the highest building in Riyadh, was free of any explosives
