‘I did not want them to fall sick’: Boy who won hearts for sheltering bus passengers from rain


Thirteen-year-old Soon Hwee Tze's kind act won over the Internet when a passer-by uploaded a video to the sgfollowsall Instagram account. - SCREENGRABS FROM SGFOLLOWSALL/INSTAGRAM, HESTER TAN

SINGAPORE: It was pouring heavily as passengers hurriedly alighted from their buses and were greeted by a bespectacled boy in uniform sheltering them from the storm with an umbrella.

Thirteen-year-old Soon Hwee Tze continued to help strangers from five other buses at a bus stop before Punggol Road along Tampines Expressway until his bus came.

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