MADE IN JAPAN

exciting stuff happened at home while i was away today!
its been a long time since i had such journalistic fodder, so please indulge me

"Unexploded bomb found in Clementi construction site

What's believed to be an unexploded bomb was discovered at a construction site in Commonwealth Avenue West yesterday afternoon.

Construction next to Nan Hua High School came to a halt at around 5 PM, and the police and army were called in soon after.

Eyewitness Kevin Magnus, who stays on the 18th floor of an HDB block facing the construction site, has been monitoring the situation using binoculars since last night.

Speaking to 938LIVE, Mr Magnus, who handled ordinances during his national service stint, believes he saw a bomb uncovered by the excavators.

"I peered down, and there seems to be a bit of, some commotion with the site supervisors. Thereafter the excavators stopped with their digging. And I was at the balcony peering down and I had a clear look. After they had cleared the earth, and they found a piece of cylindrical material. It looks cylindrical with fins. It looks like a bomb, 60 to 80 pounder."

Mr Magnus said that four men from the Bomb Disposal Unit were brought in, and the whole area was cordoned off by the police.

As of 12.30pm today, officers from the Singapore Armed Forces were seen digging a trench about a kilometre away from the bomb location.

Mr Magnus believes the trench will be used to detonate the bomb.

"There is a trench, which looks like what we used in the Armed Forces, a "shell scrap". I'm not too sure how deep it is. Surrounding it, there are concrete blocks, where you use concrete blocks to do weight piling. To do soil testing, there are 8 of them. And to the right of the concrete blocks, there are national service men filling up the sand bags with the earth from the construction site."

Police have confirmed that a "war relic" has been found, but were unable to provide further details.

Operations are currently ongoing to secure the site.

Police add that members of the public are advised not to be alarmed.

--938Live "

first of all, i want ask mr. kevin magnus what the fuck exactly was he "monitoring" with his binos "since last night". cos i stay next to you mr. magnus, and i slept late last night, and there was nothing going on down there except thai and indian workers taking their nightly shower.
second of all, i love it how seven eighth of this report is based the expert opinion of mr. kevin "the magnum" magnus and only the last three lines had the word police. whoa he even can tell just by looking at the bomb from the 18th floor that it was a"60 to 80 pounder"
hilarious!

here's another report ,

"World War 2 relic found at Clementi Ave 1 construction site

There was plenty of police and military activity around Clementi Avenue 1 and Commonwealth Avenue West on Tuesday. The cause for the alarm was an unexploded World War 2 relic.

The war relic was discovered at about 6pm on Monday at a construction site near Block 411 Commonwealth Avenue West.

Experts from the Singapore Armed Forces said it was a Japanese aerial bomb dating from the Second World War.

Usually, when a war relic is discovered, it is taken to a military live firing range to be disposed of. But bomb disposal specialists decided it was actually safer to carry out the operation at the site itself this time around.

That was because the fuse had already been activated, so transporting the 50-kilogramme bomb could be risky.

To be safe, SAF personnel moved the relic to another part of the site, away from the residential block.

The plan was to cut open the relic's steel casing and gently burn away the explosives. But in the process the bomb unexpectedly exploded at about 5:30pm. Fortunately sandbags ensured that no harm came about.

Earlier in the day, police had diverted traffic away from nearby Clementi Road and construction work on the site had to be halted.

Students from neighbouring NUS High School of Mathematics and Science were also asked to leave their campus.

Experts said war relics are a relatively common find in Singapore, but this was one of the rare occasions where a public disposal was necessary. The last occasion was in 2004"

this report is so much better.
the only joke is, how come the entire NUS high school was evacuated while the newtown sec boys are still playing soccer during lunchtime?? NUS high is on the other side of the expressway man, newtown sec is just next to the field!!
fucking elitists.

to think i played catch with the dogs on that field while it was still empty, wasiktar.. could have been blown to bits la..

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