KOTA BHARU: A journalist with a print media outlet here received a bomb threat via telephone from an unknown man yesterday, one day after she wrote an article on a hoax bomb scare at the Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (LTSIP) in Pengkalan Chepa here.
The 36-year-old victim, who declined to be named, said she received the call at 5.51pm while covering an assignment on a drowning case in Badang here. She believes that the man issuing the threat was angry over her news article which was published yesterday.
"The person asked me 'are you the one who covered (the story) on the bomb threat at LTSIP? Don't fool around with me... or else, I will (explode a) bomb'.
"The (call is believed to have been made) from a public telephone booth," she said when contacted by Bernama here today.
Subsequently, the woman lodged a police report at the Kota Baru Police District headquarters at 9pm.
Kelantan deputy police chief SAC Din Ahmad confirmed the incident, saying that the case is being investigated under Section 507 of the Penal Code for criminal intimidation.
Meanwhile, Kelantan Darul Naim Press Club (KEMUDI) president Zailani Abd Rahman said he hopes the authorities will take stern action against the culprit to prevent such an incident from happening to other crime journalists. -- BERNAMA