Singapore smog: Residents warned to stay indoors
The prime minister of Singapore said Thursday a hazardous haze could hang over the city-state for weeks, as forest fires burn on the nearby Indonesian island of Sumatra.
“We can’t tell how this [haze] problem is going to develop because it depends on the burning, it depends on the weather, it depends on the wind,” said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
The enveloping smog has been rated on the "hazardous" on the pollution standards, with Singapore demanding "definitive" action to curb the pollution.
At 1 p.m. Singapore local time the National Environment Agency said the pollution index had reached 371, breaking all previous records.
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