Three residents die in Singapore flat fire

SCDF personnel fighting the fire that broke out at a unit in Bedok North Avenue 2 on May 13, 2022. - SCDF/FACEBOOK, LEE MEI MEI

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Three people died in a fire that broke out in the living room of a flat in Bedok North on early Friday morning (May 13), MP for the estate Tan Kiat How said.

When Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) personnel arrived at the fourth floor flat at about 6.40am, they found four unconscious people in the unit which had “a vast accumulation of combustible items”, SCDF said in a Facebook post.