What the records say
- When
- 12 Oct 1978
- Kind
- Industrial accident
- Coordinates
- 1.28° N, 103.65° E
- Description
- major industrial disaster that occurred in Singapore
- Deaths
- 76
- Injured
- 69
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Spyros disaster occurred at Jurong Shipyard, resulting in 76 fatalities”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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