Shocked to find neighbour a bombmaker


Blast site: The corridor of the Taman Pandan flat in Sungai Puyu, Butterworth, where the improvised device blew up. — ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

BUTTERWORTH: A 32-year-old man has admitted to the police he learnt how to make a bomb from the Internet and even bought the ingredients online.

The suspected bombmaker also had a gun and homemade ammunition for it, plus a karambit knife, which police seized after one of his improvised devices blew up at the corridor of the Taman Pandan flats in Sungai Puyu here, where he lives.

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