18-year-old disabled victim found dead in apartment fire


GEORGE TOWN: A disabled person was killed after his eighth floor apartment unit at Desa Bayan in Bayan Baru caught fire.

Firemen who received the distress call at 8.59am Sunday (May 8) rushed to the scene and managed to extinguish the fire before discovering the 18-year-old victim's scorched body sprawled in a bedroom.

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