KOTA KINABALU: The staff and customers of Kuwait Finance House along Gaya Street here ran for cover after its main glass door cracked yesterday.
Fearing the incident might be another driveby shooting, police were deployed to the scene within minutes after the 5.20pm incident was reported to them.
City police chief ACP Jauteh Dikun, who was at the scene, however dismissed the incident as another driveby shooting after police failed to find any clues that the glass door was hit by hard object.
“Investigation at the scene found no clues or object that had hit the main glass door of Kuwait Finance House.
“After talking to the manager, police have confirmed that the door cracked by itself and this incident has nothing to do with any mischief activity,” he said yesterday.
According to Jauteh, investigation believed that one of the glass doors had loosen after the alarm had been triggered since Saturday.
“What we understand that the alarm at the entrance door has been going on and off for two to three times a day since Saturday.
“Police believed that the crack on the door was due to it being loosen and not stable.
“Therefore police dismiss that this incident involved any driveby or mischief incident.
“It is just a door cracked by itself, believed due to heavy wind today,” he said.
Meanwhile, Kuwait Finance House customer service manager Azaman Dimon said he was in the office when he heard a loud noise at the lobby and immediately went to have a look.
“When I went to look, I saw there is a crack on the glass door.
“I immediately went to look at the CCTV footage to see what actually happened but did not see anyone approach the building or vehicle pass by,” he said yesterday.
On January 11 this year, more than 20 places in the state capital were hit by a drive-by mystery shooting.
Glass panes and glass doors of hotels, shopping malls, banks and fast food outlets were riddled with single bullet hole or some even shattered by shots fired by unknown people between midnight and 1am.
Police arrested five individuals to assist them in the investigation of these cases.