According to Kuala Lumpur Police Chief, Tajudin Isa, the suspected explosives, contained in two plastic bottles, were seized at a car park at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and successfully destroyed by police bomb experts.
“A civilian had informed security personnel about the presence of the suspicious package,’’ Tajudin said. Malaysian police have been on high alert since terrorist attacks in January that killed several people, including the attackers.
On Tuesday, Interior Ministry officials revealed that local sympathisers of the extremist militia IS plotted to kidnap Prime Minister Najib Razak and two other senior officials in 2015. Federal Territories Minister, Adnan Mansor, warned in February that local IS sympathisers were planning to launch terrorist attacks in public and tourist areas in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia, a predominantly Islamic South-East Asian country of over 30 million people, has not experienced a deadly terrorist attack. Malaysian police have arrested over 100 local IS supporters since it began a crackdown on the militant group in early 2014.
The Interior Ministry estimated that over 130 Malaysians have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside IS militants.
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