KUALA LUMPUR: A contractor had the shock of his life when he found an old bomb while cleaning a drain at the Semenyih Sentral commercial centre in Semenyih near here today.
Kajang police chief ACP Othman Nanyan said Chai Kwek Far, 53, stumbled upon the 10mm by 150mm mortar bomb around 1.30pm.
“He immediately informed the police.
“It was retrieved with a backhoe and we found that it was a very old bomb,” he told Bernama.
He added that a bomb disposal unit team detonated the bomb at the Kajang Rock Semenyih quarry at 6pm.
– BERNAMA