Boy dead after playing with lighter


MELAKA: A four-year-old boy was found dead at a People’s Housing Project (PPR) flat in Krubong here after he was believed to have been playing with a lighter, says the Fire and Rescue Department.

The victim’s mother told the authorities that her son had been playing with a lighter before the tragedy which occurred at around 2.20pm yesterday, said Melaka Fire and Rescue Department’s Assistant Director of the Operations Division, Senior Fire Supt Mohd Shahrom Laji.

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