NEWS ALERT!

(1) - 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.

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


(2) - 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 no harm was done.

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 as it was used as an operations base by the police.

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 time was in 2004. - CNA/vm

and, NANHUA had evacuate from our campus too. duhhh, the construction side is jus beside us and the place that they discovered the bomb was pretty near our fence.

MAJOR WOW. like totally unexpected. mr foo jus made the announcement at 2.20pm for us to leave the sch immediately. and we were like, i dont want to die. i still wan to take my O levels. LOL.
major conjestions all the way to mrt lol. and, CO IS CANCELLED :D! heh.

so, went to collect class tee! which is better than i expected. ate lunch/dinner, bought stuff for class picnic, and homed :)

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results were okay today. depressed abt my chem and quite happy with my emaths and okay with my hcl. more updates abt results next time.

and, ROAD RUN'S TMR! whoopeee i think i wan to run D: except nobody peis me run T_T mass games tmr too, JIAYOU 403! ~