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Mr Victor Pang, who lives opposite Whampoa Makan Place, said he saw smoke progressively blanketing outside his home at about 4.10pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He recalled seeing greyish-white smoke billowing from the roof of the hawker centre.<\/p>\n
Madam Jamilah Latiff, 64, who was cooking at Rabiah Muslim food behind Swee Lee, said the fire appeared to have originated from a deep fryer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I heard a gas pop sound, then someone started screaming ‘smoke smoke smoke!’. Then I saw the fire,” Mdm Latiff said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said someone tried to put the fire out with water but it appeared to have worsened the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mdm Latiff, who has been operating her stall for about 43 years, said this is the worst fire in her time at the hawker centre.<\/p>\n
“My first experience was, I think, in the last two or three years, my neighbour also caught fire,” she recounted, adding that it was put out with a fire extinguisher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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