The 30-year-old man was charged on Saturday with making false threats of terrorist acts and has been remanded at a hospital for mental illness in the city-state.
: An Australian man alleged to have made bomb threats on a flight from Singapore to Perth has been charged by police in the city-state with making false threats of terrorist acts.
The crime of making a false threat, if proven, carries a maximum jail sentence of 10 years, a fine of up to $SGD500,000 , or both, police said. As a result, two F-15SGs from the Republic of Singapore Air Force were activated to shepherd the Boeing 787 Dreamliner back.The 362 passengers were initially told over the plane’s communication system that the flight was returning to Singapore because of a technical issue, before being informed of the bomb threat when the fighter jets loomed.reported the captain told passengers. “Please do not be alarmed as we believe it is a hoax.
In a separate incident, a 39-year-old Singaporean man has been charged for making a false bomb threat on a cruise ship at Singapore’s Marina Bay ship terminal on Friday.
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