Bedok North fire that killed three likely caused by cigarette left on cardboard boxes

SCDF personnel during the fire that broke out in a Bedok North Avenue 2 flat on May 13 last year and the aftermath. - SCDF/FACEBOOK, LIANHE ZAOBAO

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A raging fire that killed three people in a Bedok North flat in 2022 was likely caused by an unattended cigarette left by the home owner’s boyfriend.

Home owner Aileen Chan and two of her tenants – Tan Soon Keong, 34, and his three-year-old daughter Hui En – were killed in a pre-dawn fire at the flat in Block 409 Bedok North Avenue 2 on May 13.