3 Men on hash run triggered Woodleigh MRT flour scare.
– SINGAPORE –
The three men involved in the Woodleigh MRT station flour scare on Tuesday (April 18) are part of a group participating in “hashing”.
The train station was closed for almost three hours after an alert was raised over a suspicious white substance that turned out to be flour.
Following investigation, the police said that the trio had used flour to mark a trail for their running route.
The revelation shed light on a practice known as hashing, which refers to a specific type of running by groups that call themselves Hash House Harriers. During hashing, the trail is first marked out by advance runners with flour, chalk or toilet paper.
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