ON March 10, 1965, at 3:07 p.m., a bomb exploded in the MacDonald House building on Orchard Road, Singapore. The building, which was used then by HSBC, shattered by the bomb only seven minutes after its closing time. Many office workers who were inside the building, including Rosie Heng, an employee of the Malaya Borneo Building Society on the fourth floor, mistook the blast for a lightning in heavy rain.

Instead of a lightning, the deafening sound came from a nitroglycerine bomb placed near the building’s lift, where the bomb tore through the door and destroyed the walls around it. Not far from the lift was the bank's correspondence office, where Suzie Choo, 36, personal secretary to the bank manager, and Juliet Goh, 23, a bank clerk, worked. Both died instantly and were buried under the rubble. The third victim, Mohamed Yasin bin Kesit, driver for the Malaya Borneo Building Society, died a few days later after slipping into a coma. At least 33 other people were injured.

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