Couple dies in fire after row


Deadly blaze: A Fire and Rescue Department official inspecting the apartment which caught fire in Taman Iskandar, Johor Baru. Ang (inset left) and Ambrose died in the fire.

JOHOR BARU: Minutes after getting embroiled in an argument, a couple was trapped in a fire in their apartment and died of smoke suffocation.

The victims, Angielee Ambrose, 29, from Sabah and friend Ang Lye Hock, 52, a Singaporean, were heard quarrelling before the tragedy at about 11.15am at a townhouse residence in Taman Iskandar here yesterday.

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