An Umno leader has linked the recent shooting in Bayan Lepas, Penang to religious insults despite a warning by police against wild allegations about the case.

Puteri Umno vice-chief Nurul Amal Mohd Fauzi, in a ceramah last night, repeated allegations on social media that the man whom police shot had gone amok after two people allegedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad.

"Yesterday a martyr was laid to rest. Sheikh Mohd Khairil was shot because he went amok in front of two kafirs who insulted the Prophet Muhammad," she said in Kubang Kerian, Kelantan.

She said this in her opening remarks at a ceramah organised by Kubang Kerian PAS.

Just several hours earlier, Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador had warned against the spread of false allegations regarding the case.