SINGAPORE – A person died in the early hours of March 19 after a fire broke out in a Housing Board flat in Choa Chu Kang.
In a Facebook post on the same day, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted to the fire at about 3am at Block 763 Choa Chu Kang North 5.
The fire was in a bedroom of a 14th-floor flat. SCDF extinguished the blaze with two water jets.
During the firefighting operation, a person was found inside the flat and was later pronounced dead at the scene by an SCDF paramedic.
