Singapore: The tree that killed a woman and injured four others when it uprooted last Saturday was unlikely to have failed owing to a lack of space, said a former senior arborist at the Botanic Gardens.
The 270-year-old tembusu tree had already been there when the Gardens were established in 1859, said Lahiru Wijedasa.
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