CEBU - A SWAT team checked on an alleged bomb threat near a hotel in Barangay Basak in Lapu-Lapu City early Tuesday but found no bomb.

Roving members of the Lapu-Lapu Allied Forces (CLAF) alerted police after finding a pile of styropor and cartons on top of stones across a hotel along V. Patalinhug Avenue.

A SWAT team was immediately called to check the items but no bomb was found. Instead, authorities found a piece of cardboard which had the words "Hire all PNP-AFP", "shooting," and "direct kill".

"There is a possibility that we (police) are being tested on our readiness. We should remain vigilant,” SWAT chief SPO4 Domeciano Luna said.

No one saw who left the items in the area.

Police interrogated a certain Julius Bautista who was seen near the scene. He was later released when he was able to present an ID, proving that he is a security guard who just went to the area to visit his cousin.

Lapu-Lapu SWAT and Marigondon Police Station are now coordinating with the management of the hotel to get footage from their CCTV placed within the hotel's vicinity.