A worrying situation – and more likely to be linked to domestic crime than Islamic terrorism (Malaysia is an Islamic nation but Sharia law only applies to those shown as Muslim on their ID cards)
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The 51-year-old owner of the 12th floor apartment unit, who was awakened from his sleep when he heard a knock on his door at 8.30am yesterday, found a cardboard box with two pomeloes placed on top, on the floor outside his unit.
The man, who wanted to be identified only as Lim, said he smelt kerosene and felt suspicious.
“I asked several neighbours if they had seen anyone place the box there but no one saw anything,” said Lim, who runs an Internet cafe and a restaurant on the ground floor of the apartment block.
He then called Ng and Goh to inspect the contents of the box.
The box exploded when the workers touched it.
A pomelo is like a giant grapefruit, native to SE Asia. wouldn’t suprise me if they’d used the fruit part of the trigger mechanism for the IED – its the sort of thing Chinese gangsters would do (people in Malaysia are easily distracted by food). The pomelos “were not badly damaged (!)” so Malaysian CSI are hoping to get fingerprints from them, assuming fat cops don’t eat the evidence by mistake…
