The New York City Police Department has said its hate crime unit was probing anti-Muslim threats against mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, Reuters reports.

An NYPD spokesperson said police received reports that on Wednesday at 9:45am (6:45pm PKT), Mamdani, a Democratic state assembly member and mayoral candidate, reported that he “received four phone voicemails, on various dates, making threatening anti-Muslim statements by an unknown individual”.

There have not been any arrests so far and an investigation remains ongoing, the NYPD said. The New York Daily News reported that a man threatened to blow up Mamdani’s car. Mamdani’s campaign said he was participating in the police probe.

This marked the latest US incidents to raise concerns about a rise in hate against Americans of Muslim heritage since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in late 2023.