KLANG: A man who was detained on Monday for attaching a homemade bomb to his former lover’s car had his remand extended to Friday to enable police to continue investigations into his main motive.

Selangor deputy police chief Ab Rashid Ab Wahab said preliminary investigations showed that the intention of the man, a technician, was to threaten his ex-lover for not servicing the monthly instalments on the car.

He said this was because the 27-year-old man was the guarantor for the loan on the car and he was unhappy with the attitude of his ex-lover.

“To date, preliminary investigation shows the man’s action was a threat. In fact, the making of the bomb was not like that of an expert, maybe just copied from social sites,” he told reporters here yesterday.