Singapore church services cancelled over fake bomb threat

An Indian-origin Singaporean man was charged on Monday with making a false terrorist threat at a church where all services for the day were cancelled, media reported. The incident took place on Sunday.

Kokulananthan Mohan, charged with an offence under Regulation 8(2)(a) of the United Nations (Anti-terrorism Measures) Regulations, was arrested after a suspicious item was found at St Joseph’s Church along Upper Bukit Timah region, which includes an upmarket residential area.

According to charge sheets, the 26-year-old is accused of placing three cardboard rolls “filled with stone



pebbles and sporting protruding red wires, held together using black and yellow adhesive tapes” in the church at about 7.11 am on Sunday.