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The SAR 21 ("Singapore Assault Rifle - 21st Century") is a bullpup assault rifle designed and manufactured in Singapore, chambered for the 5.56x45mm cartridge. First revealed and subsequently adopted by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) as its standard service weapon in 1999, it was designed and developed over a four-year period to replace the locally license-built M16S1 [3] by the Ministry of ...
River Valley High School attack. On 19 July 2021, a thirteen-year old Secondary One male student named Ethan Hun Zhe Kai (Chinese: 韩喆凯; pinyin: Hán Zhékǎi) was struck to death with a combat fire fighting axe at River Valley High School in Boon Lay, Singapore, in an incident which was reportedly unprecedented in the history of Singapore.
Gun laws and policies, collectively referred to as firearms regulation or gun control, regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, and use of small arms by civilians. [ 1 ] Laws of some countries may afford civilians a right to keep and bear arms, and have more liberal gun laws than neighboring jurisdictions.
Mohamed bin Ismail. On 31 May 2015, Mohamed Taufik Zahar was shot by the police manning a high security checkpoint located near the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore where the Shangri-La Dialogue was being held. Taufik was driving a car when he accelerated towards police officers at a roadblock. Taufik died after being shot and his two passengers ...
Changi Prison, where Singapore's death row is located Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping —warrant the death penalty under Singapore law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to ...
27 August 2020: A 24-year-old Chinese national Cui Huan beat up his 27-year-old wife Liang Xueqiu after being caught of an affair with another man; Liang died from Intracerebral hemorrhage as a result of the injuries. They were married in 2016 and had a child, and came to Singapore three years later to seek employment.
On the evening of 20 June 2015, a shooting incident broke out at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Yishun, Singapore. While there were no fatalities, a 31-year-old police officer was injured while the suspected shooter, who was a patient in the hospital, was arrested. [2][3][4] According to the media and court documents, the day before the shooting ...
Hours after the shooting, online assassination threats were made in Singapore and Taiwan against their respective leaders, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Tsai Ing-wen. In Singapore, a 45-year-old man was arrested after his threats online were reported to the police. [ 311 ]