MIRI (Bernama) – The police arrested a man at the Miri airport yesterday after he told check-in counter officials that he was carrying a bomb.
The officials had asked the 28-year-old man whether he was carrying any power bank but he replied that he was carrying a bomb, and did so thrice after being questioned as many times, said Miri District Police Chief ACP Lim Meng Seah.
The incident happened when the man was checking in for a flight to Kuala Lumpur. Lim said the officials summoned security personnel and the man was arrested and taken to the police station at the airport.
