No TNT residue found at the bombing sites: Police
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 07/17/2009 7:07 PM
The police said they found no TNT residue at both the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels that came under bomb attacks on Friday.
“We only found a black powder residue from debris at the two sites. There was no TNT. The bombs that went off were low explosives,” National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Nanan Sukarna said.
TNT, the abbreviation of Trinitrotoluene, is a chemical ingredient used to make high explosive bombs.
Preliminary investigations had concluded that the blasts resulted from high explosive bombs, which were used in the 2003 attack on the JW Marriott Hotel in 2003. (bbs)
