Police: No sabotage or terrorism link to Empire Gallery blast
A birds-eye view of the damage at Empire Gallery Subang. Picture by Choo Choy May
Deputy Selangor CPO Datuk A. Thaiveegan told reporters at the scene that the complex, which comprises a 12-storey office suites tower, five-storey shopping mall, a nine-storey SOHO (small office home office) and a 10-storey hotel, will be closed to the public indefinitely.
Many have called to ask if the incident was caused by sabotage or terrorism. From our early investigations, no proof was found to indicate this.
Meaning, there was no sabotage and no link to terrorism. We regard this as an accident, which could have been caused by negligence, he said.
Fire and Rescue Department personnel, police, its forensics unit and the Energy Commission (EC), he said, will press on with investigations to discover what caused the leak.
We know it was a gas leak ... but what caused the blast? There must have been a spark, he said.
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