Singaporeans say they are prepared for a terror attack, but only one in five believes it will happen here.

But the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which released its second Singapore Terrorism Threat Assessment Report yesterday, warned that the terrorism threat remains high.

Associate professor Kumar Ramakrishna, head of policy studies and national security studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, said the survey results are “not that surprising”, owing to Singapore not having a terrorist incident since the 1970s.