{"id":41179,"date":"2026-04-02T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=41179"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:14:34","slug":"250kg-world-war-ii-bomb-disposal-completed-no-impact-on-airport-operations-cag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=41179","title":{"rendered":"250kg World War II bomb disposal completed; no impact on airport operations: CAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The war relic, discovered during construction works at 4.55am on Tuesday, was assessed as unsafe to move by the Singapore Armed Forces&#8217; (SAF) Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>It had said that it would carry out an on-site disposal of the bomb between 2.30am and 4.30am on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>A map of the disposal site provided by the police showed the location as within the Changi East development area, where Terminal 5 is planned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Police said then they were working closely with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, CAG, SAF and the Singapore Civil Defence Force to ensure that the controlled disposal of the war relic was carried out safely.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/ww2-bomb-successfully-disposed-tanah-merah-coast-road-changi-airport-6032651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war relic, discovered during construction works at 4.55am on Tuesday, was assessed as unsafe to move by the Singapore Armed Forces&#8217; (SAF) Explosive Ordnance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--3NNn1T8D--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/04\/01\/screenshot_2026-04-01_200548.png?itok=FmdvymXl","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19496,1350,7332,19530,5036,19529,3312,7460,3544,526],"class_list":["post-41179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-250kg","tag-airport","tag-bomb","tag-cag","tag-completed","tag-disposal","tag-impact","tag-operations","tag-war","tag-world","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}