A 34-year-old man was arrested by making a false bomb treat on an online website in Singapore, local media Channel NewsAsia reported.

According to the report, the threat was posted as a comment in response to an article on the website relating to the recent Boston Marathon bombings. It threatened to bomb several locations in Singapore.

The police said the man was arrested on Thursday just 24 hours after a report on April 17.

"Preliminary investigations indicate that the suspect had no intention or means to carry out his threats. Investigations are on- going," local daily Straits Times quoted a police spokesman as saying.

The police said they "take a serious view of anyone who capitalises on recent security concerns to attempt to cause public alarm or fear by making bomb hoaxes, and will spare no effort to track down the perpetrators and take them to task".

The police also said they are aware of, and are looking into another online posting which threatened to bomb the Singapore marathon.

According to local regulations, it is an offense for a person to "communicate or make available by any means any information which he knows or believes to be false to another person with the intention of inducing in him or any other person a false belief that a terrorist act has been, is being or will be carried out."

If plead guilty, the accused shall be punished with a fine not exceeding 100,000 Singapore dollars (81,301 U.S. dollars) or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both. Endi

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