GEORGE TOWN: Barely two weeks after his 72-year-old father died of cancer, Tanjung MCA Youth chief Lim Swee Bok suffered another tragic loss when his entire family perished in a fire which gutted his two-storey house in Pintasan Cecil 5 here.
His Chinese national wife Chen Yan, 35, son Yin Chun, 10, daughter Jia Ying, nine, and mother Lau Sai Poh, 62, died in the blaze, which occurred at about 6am yesterday.
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