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ACTING ON TIP-OFF: Police officers combed an underground canal in Pending Road for suspected illegal immigrants but found none. -- ST PHOTOS: LIM WUI LIANG
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For more than four hours yesterday, police officers searched a covered canal near Block 124 Pending Road in Bukit Panjang for suspected illegal immigrants.
A resident alerted the police at about 10am after spotting some men near the drain opening.
But the search - which had involved Special Operations Command (SOC) officers - was eventually called off at about 2pm when they could not find anyone.
By then, a crowd of curious residents had gathered near the search site, their interest piqued by the sight of the four bright red SOC vehicles parked along the road.
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