GEORGE TOWN: A tourist from China was one of two people injured after they were hit by fragments from an explosion under a car at a parking bay in Lorong Love here yesterday, police said.
The explosion occurred at 2.30pm under the Honda Civic car of a man who was having a drink at a nearby restaurant, said North East District police chief ACP Gan Kong Meng.
He said police found fragments of what looked like a huge firecracker that had been placed under the car.
The force of the explosion badly damaged the rear of the vehicle, he said, adding that the Chinese tourist and a local woman were injured in the legs and were sent to a nearby clinic for treatment.
An eye-witness, Ali Ibrahim, 40, said people in the vicinity panicked on hearing the explosion, thinking that a bomb had gone off.
The owner of the car lodged a report at the Sentral police station. — Bernama