A bomb disposal robot checks the vehicle that was attacked with an explosive device on Tuesday night.
Forensic police investigating at the scene of the explosive attack at the entrance to Penampang Buddhist Temple yesterday morning.
PENAMPANG: Two young men cheated death when the car they were in was attacked with an explosive device, believed to be a petrol bomb, at the entrance to Penampang Buddhist Temple, Jalan Taipaikung, in Dongonggon town on Tuesday night.
It is believed that the victims, identified only as Woi, 26, and Lau, 19, had just entered the Proton Waja car near the temple around 9.30pm when a man in a Perodua Kancil car that was driving past them hurled the explosive device.
It was said that after throwing the explosive device, the Kancil car stopped several meters away until the explosive device went off.
Once the occupants of the Kancil car heard the explosion, they sped off.
The victims immediately got off the car and suffered only minor injuries.
The explosion, which could be heard some two kilometers away, damaged the back of the Waja car.
No other vehicles were parked near the scene then while the windows of a house located near the parked car were damaged.
Meanwhile, district police chief DSP Ratan Kumar Singh said a police forensic team and a bomb squad went to the scene to investigation.
“No one was hurt in the incident and police are still investigating the motive behind the attack,” he said, adding that the case was investigated under Section 6 of the Explosives Act 1957.
He urged anyone with information on the incident to immediately contact the police to assist in their investigation.