SINGAPORE is looking to buttress bus interchanges against car bombs with a high-tech system of sensors and automated concrete and steel barriers, officials revealed yesterday.

Government officials have been working with a private security company since September to develop the system, designed to stop explosive-laden vehicles in their tracks.

While Singapore has never been attacked by terrorists, bus terminals remain prime targets as a bombing could lead to mass casualties and cripple a public transport network which sees nearly nine million journeys a day.

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