An amateur football player who was arrested for bringing an offensive weapon onto a football field early this month is also found to be the “wanted person” in connection with a bomb attack at an entertainment centre in Kuala Lumpur last May.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Rusdi Mohd Isa said in a press conference that the police identified the 22-year-old footballer as a suspect in the Molotov cocktail case based on investigation...