When the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) was alerted to a World War II aerial bomb last month, the experts sent to assess the situation had never been involved in such a disposal.
But the team of first-timers, comprising regular servicemen from the SAF’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit, had been training for this day. They assessed on Sep 20 that the unexploded bomb was unsafe to be moved from the Upper Bukit Timah construction site. Then, others from the unit – also known as the 36th Battalion of the Singapore Combat Engineers (36SCE) – were roped in to dispose of it on-site.
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Source: Channel News Asia