Sri Lankan who issued bomb threat was just out of psychiatric care

Terrifying ordeal: Police recording statements from passengers on the tarmac after flight MH128 made an emergency landing in Melbourne. — AFP

MELBOURNE: A Sri Lankan student who tried to enter an airline cockpit with what he said was a bomb before he was overpowered by terrified passengers, was released from psychiatric care just before boarding the plane, Australian police said.

Passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH128 from here to Kuala Lumpur said they feared for their lives when the 25-year-old, identified as Manodh Marks, rushed towards the cockpit shouting that he wanted to “blow the plane up”.