KOTA KINABALU: A powerful explosion ripped open a grilled entrance of a goldsmith shop at the Segama Commercial Centre in the heart of town at about 2.45am Monday (Dec 31). Police suspect that it was an attempted robbery but were still investigating other motives of the explosion that shook the shopping area. “We do not think anything was taken from the goldsmith shop. We are still investigating,” Kota Kinabalu OCPD Asst Comm Habibi Majinji told reporters at the scene of the incident. Habibi said that they had yet to identify the type of explosive used in the incident that ripped open the grilled entrance into the goldsmith shop.

Source: The Star December 31, 2018 00:45 UTC