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Police have arrested a 34-year-old man for making a false bomb threat on an online website. This came about after authorities received a report on the posting on 17 April.
SINGAPORE: Police have arrested a 34-year-old man for making a false bomb threat on an online website.
This came about after authorities received a report on the posting on 17 April.
The post, made on an online news website had made threats to bomb several locations in Singapore.
The threat was posted as a comment, in response to an article, relating to the recent Boston Marathon bombings.
Police said the suspect was arrested in the vicinity of Sengkang Central.
Initial investigations show that the suspect had no intention or means to carry out his threats.
Investigations are on-going.
Commander of Ang Mo Kio police division and deputy assistant commissioner of police Keok Tong San said: “The police will take swift and firm action against those who threaten the sense of safety and security in Singapore by making such irresponsible remarks while hiding behind the anonymity of the Internet."
Separately, police said it is also aware of a recent online posting that had made a threat to bomb the Singapore marathon.
Authorities are looking into the matter.
Police said it takes a serious view of anyone who capitalizes on recent security concerns to attempt to cause public alarm or fear by making bomb hoaxes.
It added authorities will spare no effort to track down the perpetrators and take them to task.
Under Regulation 8(1) of the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Regulations, it is an offence for a person to communicate or make available by any means any information which he knows or believes to be false to another person, with the intention of inducing in him or any other person a false belief that a terrorist act has been, is being or will be carried out.
Any person found guilty of committing the offence shall be punished with a fine not exceeding S$100,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both.
SINGAPORE - A 34-year-old man has been arrested in Singapore over an online threat to bomb several locations in the city-state in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon attack, police said Saturday.
The man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, was arrested on Thursday after posting the threat as a comment on a news article about the deadly bombings in Boston, police said in a statement.
"Preliminary investigations indicated that the suspect had no intention or means to carry out his threats," said the statement.
Local daily The Straits Times reported the man had posted the comment on the Yahoo! Singapore website.
Making bomb threats in Singapore is an offence punishable by a maximum of five years in jail or a fine of up to $100,000, or both.
Separately, police said they were investigating a threat to bomb the Singapore Marathon in December, with no arrests made so far. The police statement said authorities took a serious view of anyone who "capitalises on recent security concerns" to alarm the public with bomb hoaxes, and would spare no effort to track down those responsible.
Earlier Saturday, a Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane carrying 280 passengers from Manila was inspected by police due to what the carrier called a "potential security incident".
Passengers were allowed to leave at around 3:00 am (1900 GMT), four hours after landing in Singapore's Changi Airport. Police said no arrests were made and declined to give any specifics of the case, but sources familiar with the incident told AFP it was the result of a bomb hoax.
US police on Friday captured an ethnic Chechen teenager suspected of staging the Boston Marathon bombings - which killed three people and left around 180 wounded - following a manhunt in the wake of a gun battle overnight in which his alleged accomplice brother was killed.
