SINGAPORE: Singapore army specialists today detonated a 100-kilogramme (220-pound) World War II-era bomb found at a construction site, causing a thunderous boom in the city-state after authorities had evacuated thousands of residents.
More than 4,000 people were evacuated from nearby residences for the controlled detonation, which local media reported was the largest-ever exercise involving a WWII relic in Singapore.The unexploded aerial bomb was discovered last week where a condominium was being built in the city's northeastern suburb of Bukit Timah, police said on Sunday. A mushroom cloud rose in the distance on Tuesday morning as bomb disposal experts carried out the first of a series of explosions.
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