Toddler among three dead in Singapore flat fire (update)

SCDF personnel rescued several people from the flat, which was on the fourth floor of the block in Bedok North Avenue 2. - ST READER, SCDF/FACEBOOK

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Three people, including a three-year-old, have died in a fire that broke out in the living room of a flat in Bedok North on early Friday morning (May 13).

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.