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Police deny viral claim of explosion threat near KLIA, confirm car battery explosion instead
Published on: Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Published on: Wed, Apr 16, 2025
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Police deny viral claim of explosion threat near KLIA, confirm car battery explosion instead
The exterior of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is shown in this undated photograph courtesy of Malaysia Airports.
Kuala Lumpur: Police have denied a viral claim that there was an explosion threat at a petrol station near the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) today.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa said his department received information about an explosion incident involving a Proton Saga car at the location in question.

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“For your information, the results of the inspection showed that it was a car battery that exploded. A police inspection report has been made regarding Aeropolis/1107/25,” he said in a brief statement here yesterday

Previously, a one-minute and 10-second video went viral on social media claiming that an explosion had occurred and that an arrest had been made by a police team.
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