'Highway' to leafy hideout
Tucked at the bottom of tree-lined slopes along the KJE is a network of canals that snakes from Woodlands Road, through Segar Road, to Bukit Timah Hill.
They have been a passage for suspected illegal immigrants who play a game of hide-and-seek with the authorities.
ST searches for the men who use the travel network: https://str.sg/Jcak
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'Highway' to leafy hideout: Why are these suspected illegal immigrants walking in drains
Foreign-looking men walking in drains and living in makeshift quarters amid the trees in Bukit Panjang... The Straits Times senior correspondent Zaihan Mohd Yusof and photojournalist Ng Sor Luan investigate.
Tucked at the bottom of tree-lined slopes along the Kranji Expressway (KJE) is a network of canals that snakes roughly 6.7km from Woodlands Road, through Segar Road, to Bukit Timah Hill. Another network runs 5.8km from Woodlands Road through Bukit Panjang Road to Bukit Timah Hill.
These networks in the northern part of Singapore, and the thick foliage above the 1.7m-deep drains that run next to them, hide a secret - they have been a passage for suspected illegal immigrants who play a game of hide-and-seek with the authorities, and with residents wary of their activities.
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