A four-day rat raid at a wet market and food centre in Jurong West kicked off on Sunday night, with more than 20 rodents snared within hours.
The operation was carried out by almost 30 people at the market at Block 505, Jurong West Street 52, Lianhe Wanbao reported yesterday.
It was a joint effort by the National Environment Agency (NEA), the town council and the Federation of Merchants’ Associations, Singapore.
All stalls have to be shut until the operation ends tomorrow.
A stallholder, who gave her name as Madam Huang, 58, said she had received a notice from NEA last Wednesday.
Pest controllers shifted her equipment and boxes out of her stall and examined the nooks and crannies for rats.
Madam Huang, who said the market has been plagued by rats this year, with sightings nearly every day, is glad that the authorities are taking action.
A spokesman for the Jurong-Clementi Town Council told Wanbao that the exercise is a routine one and will be carried out from 7.30pm to 11.59pm for four nights, ending tomorrow.
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