SINGAPORE – One of the victims of a fire in a Housing Board flat in Race Course Road on Aug 3 has died in hospital, the police said on Aug 5.
The 88-year-old man was among three people taken unconscious to hospital after the fire broke out at Block 684 Race Course Road, in Little India.
They had been trapped, along with two others, in the fifth-floor unit before being rescued by the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), who were alerted to the fire at 7.10pm.
Officers from the Rochor Neighbourhood Police Centre forcibly gained entry into the locked flat in an attempt to save the occupants, said the police.
They rescued a woman from the unit, and she was among those taken unconscious to hospital.
The remaining four people were rescued by the SCDF shortly after.
According to the SCDF, a bedroom in the flat was ablaze when firefighters arrived.
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