A popular mall in Johor Bahru was evacuated on Saturday evening (Oct 14) after an alleged bomb scare, Malaysian media reported. Mid Valley Southkey shopping centre’s management received a phone call at around 6pm from a man who threatened to put a bomb in the mall. The caller said he is a foreigner, and he reportedly wanted Malaysia to stop...
Shoppers at the Mid Valley Southkey mall said they were told to leave the premises without being given a specified reason.A popular mall in Johor Bahru was evacuated on Saturday evening after an alleged bomb scare, Malaysian media reported.
The caller said he is a foreigner, and he reportedly wanted Malaysia to stop supporting the Palestinians in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to China Press and Sin Chew Daily, which quoted Johor Baru southern district police chief Raub Selamat.In a Facebook post on Saturday night, the management of the mall confirmed that it had “received a report of security threat via an anonymous phone call”.
Johor police chief Kamarul Zaman Mamat said police have been searching the mall, Free Malaysia Today reported.The police were also looking at CCTV footage, Mr Kamarul said, and he urged the public to remain calm. Several videos and photos on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, earlier showed hundreds of people gathered by roads around the mall.They said they could not leave the area because their cars were still in the mall’s carpark.
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