50 residents evacuated as fire breaks out in Yishun flat


Soot covered most of the Yishun flat following the blaze, and most of the items in the bedroom where the fire broke out were badly burnt.- @LUQMANAFIQ_/INSTAGRAM

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): About 50 Yishun residents were roused from their sleep and evacuated by the police after a fire broke out there in the wee hours of Wednesday (March 22) morning.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the blaze at Block 672C Yishun Avenue 4 at about 2.25am.

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