Police foil lone wolf’s suicide bombing plan


Police have foiled a lone wolf suicide attacker (above).

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have arrested a 28-year-old insurance agent who planned to carry out a lone wolf suicide bomb attack in Malaysia, in the wake of the terrorist attack by Islamic State (IS) militants in Jakarta on Thursday.

Officers from the Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter Terrorism Division nabbed the man on Friday.

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