Homemade bomb items readily sold

Many of the ingredients necessary for a pipe bomb or even a small ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) explosive are easily obtainable in the course of one afternoon, such as the ammonium nitrate (white granules), diesel fuel (yellow liquid), strong, sturdy galvanised iron pipes with end-caps to generate enough pressure for the explosive and even hydrogen peroxide to add effect to the resulting explosion.

PETALING JAYA: The incident where a homemade bomb was placed under the car of a nurse in Kapar on Sunday is a wake-up call on how easy it is to make an improvised explosive device (IED).

In fact, making your own explosives is easy enough via numerous videos and text instructions floating around the Internet.