Jasin police chief Ahmad Jamil Radzi said the 30-year-old man was a neighbour of the house owner.

He said the 65-year-old female house owner had asked the man to help dispose of the personal belongings left behind by the previous tenant about seven months earlier.

“During the process, the man discovered an object that looked like a mortar bomb and sent a picture of the device to the house owner, who then filed a police report at 7.58pm on the same day.

“Officers from the Melaka police headquarters’ bomb disposal unit rushed to the house at 8.45pm and confirmed the discovery,” he said in a statement today.

The bomb was taken to the Melaka police headquarters for disposal.

Jamil said the single-storey terrace house was previously rented to a man who had worked in the state since 2022. He left the house in January this year.

The premises had not been rented to anyone else for nearly seven months.

Jamil said the house owner had not been in contact with the tenant since then. Police are currently looking for the man to assist in further investigations.