Last month, Singapore’s military detonated a 100kg bomb, which could have been dropped during World War II.
Singapore police said that the unexploded device was found during excavation activities at a construction site. The Straits Times newspaper reported that the bomb was likely dropped by an aircraft supporting the Japanese army during the war.
The construction site is located where the Battle of Bukit Timah took place in 1942, during the final stages of the fall of Singapore, then a British colony, to the Japanese army.
Before the armed forces’ bomb disposal team detonated the explosive, more than 4,000 people living or working near the site were evacuated.
