A police bomb squad and sniffer dogs were deployed to a condominium in Jalan Kuching, Kuala Lumpur today after a box wrapped in plastic bags was found, triggering fears that it might be an explosive device.
However, the fears were quickly doused when the bomb squad found that it was just “a bag of rubbish”, Sentul district police chief R Munusamy told Malaysiakini .
This comes amid heightened public anxiety in Kuala Lumpur, after Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Mansor named several potential terror hotspots in the city.
However, police denied ever releasing a list of locations which could be targets of terrorist attacks, asking all quarters to stop such speculations.
In the incident today, police went to the Putramas Condominium at about 5pm when a gas cylinder was spotted under a tree, which had a box wrapped in black plastic in its branches.
The object in the tree turned out to be an empty box.
Heightenend security
Over the weekend, the bomb squad was called out to Pavilion mall in Bukit Bintang – one of the areas named by Tengku Adnan - over bags of clothes left by South Korean tourists under a bench.
Tengku Adnan’s statement came days after the the Thursday terrorist attack in Jakarta , which raised fears and heightenend security in the region.
Today, Singaporean police were called in over a bag belonging to a Malaysian, who used it to hold his spot in a queue.
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak today announced that police and military are to step up joint patrols in strategic, touristic and public areas to reassure the people of their safety in view of recent terrorist attacks abroad.
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