SINGAPORE: Singaporean army specialists on Tuesday detonated a 100-kilogram (220-pound) World War 2-era bomb found at a construction site, causing a thunderous boom in the Southeast Asian 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 WW2 relic in Singapore.

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