Lawyer Siti Kasim says she hopes that those responsible for strapping a bomb to her car will be caught soon.
In a Facebook Live session, she said police are working hard on the investigation.
“Kuala Lumpur police chief (Comm Datuk Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain) also went to the scene and assured me that the police would give it their all,” she said.
“I don’t know why some people think that by killing me, everything will be quiet or maybe it was just to set an example.
“Anything I have said all along is for the good of our country,” she said.
Siti also thanked all her well-wishers.
“I don’t want to be upset over this, but it is upsetting,” she said.
“The police also checked my car and tested how the culprit managed to hook the bottles to the bottom despite it being lowered,” she said, adding that she still has to provide her statement.
The two bottles filled with wires that were discovered under Siti’s car today are believed to be an improvised explosive device (IED), Brickfields district police chief Amihizam Abdul Shukor said.
Amihizam said police received the distress call at 12.58pm and immediately acted on it.
“We immediately dispatched a bomb squad while the Fire and Rescue Department was also on hand to assist.
“The bomb squad managed to dispose of both bottles believed to be an IED,” he told reporters at the scene today.
He said experts will analyse the contents of the bottles.
“We will conduct further checks to find out whether the device was active or not,” he said.
Siti Kasim took to social media this afternoon saying an object resembling a homemade explosive device had been placed in her car.
The lawyer, in a live broadcast on her official Facebook, said the discovery was made when she sent her vehicle for maintenance at a service centre in Bangsar at noon today.
She said the service centre called to inform her about an object placed on a wheel.
The purported bomb-like material appeared to be two bottles stuffed with many wires, which were attached with a hook to the car’s undercarriage.
Siti said she decided to send her car for servicing as she has a court case in Kelantan this weekend.
“Luckily, I sent my car for service today. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have known,” the activist said.
Claiming her car was parked in her condominium all this while, Siti said she was unaware of how and when the object could have been fitted on her vehicle.
“I only went out to Petaling Jaya last night and I’m sure the police can find the culprit soon,” she said.
Siti claimed that there were only two groups that could possibly do such a thing — the “Islamofacists” and those angry at her for her criticism of a political party.
“It is quite scary. All this while, people have been telling me to take care of myself. I always assure them that I am so insignificant, so there is nothing to worry about.”
She hoped the police would be able to retrieve fingerprints from the object and arrest those responsible for making the threat.