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SINGAPORE – A 30-year-old man has been arrested and charged over a fire in front of a neighbourhood police post (NPP) in Boon Keng, the police said.
No one was injured in the incident, which police said was not an act of terrorism.
The man, who acted alone, had set fire to a few bags of clothes using petrol or diesel, and smashed the glass door of the NPP, said police.
Although he had scribbled “ISIS” on several pillars near the police post, preliminary investigations showed that he was a “disgruntled person unhappy with the perceived social inequality”, said the police.
Singaporean Sivaprakash Mailravanan was charged on Saturday (March 14) with mischief by fire. He will be remanded for further investigations and the police will seek a court order to send him for psychiatric assessment.
The Straits Times got to the scene in Towner Road just after midnight on Saturday and saw vulgarities scrawled on the void deck walls surrounding the police post. “ISIS” was visible on at least three walls. The glass panels of the police post at Block 105 Towner Road were also shattered.
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