(Source: news.shandongwang.cn)

A young man from China’s southwestern Sichuan province was recently detained for fabricating and deliberately spreading a false terrorism threat, Chengdu Business Daily reported on Tuesday. The man, who is single, said he made such claims because he felt lonely during the Spring Festival.

On Feb. 15, the young man felt sad that he had no one with whom to spend the Spring Festival, so he wrote a post online saying that he would launch terrorist attacks on the hotels in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

Later, he was arrested by police. The police said that such behavior must be punished since it can cause social panic, disrupt the social order and endanger public safety.