A Bangladeshi worker was killed and two others seriously injured when a bomb said to be left over from the Second World War exploded at the site of a new underground rail station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Initial reports said lightning caused the 5pm (local time) explosion yesterday at the Bandar Malaysia South underground station site, with workers suffering loss of legs and hands.
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But by the end of the day police confirmed that the blast in the commercial development Bandar Malaysia was from an old unexploded bomb from the Second World War.
One of the workers today was confirmed to have died from his injuries. A statement from the contractor, a Malaysian joint venture, MMC Gamuda KVMRT, said the condition of the other two workers was worsening.
In the Second World War Kuala Lumpur was occupied by Japanese Imperial forces in their conquest of British Malaya, and was bombed by the US air force.
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