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SINGAPORE \u2013 A man was arrested for being a public nuisance on July 3 during a firefighting operation in Yishun.<\/p>\n
The blaze, which broke out on the 12th floor of Block 381C Yishun Ring Road at about 5pm that day, resulted in the evacuation of 25 residents and a child being taken to hospital.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n In response to queries, the police said they had been attending to that fire with the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) when they encountered the 43-year-old man, who directed vulgarities at officers carrying out their duties.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen police officers engaged him, the man refused to cease his behaviour and spat on an officer,\u201d the authority added.<\/p>\n He was subsequently arrested for being a public nuisance, using insulting words towards a public servant and using criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty.<\/p>\n The man reportedly required medical assistance during the incident. In response to media queries, SCDF said it took one person to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital after receiving a call for assistance at about 7.25pm on July 3.<\/p>\n According to a video posted on Facebook page Singapore Incidents, the man, dressed in a red sleeveless top and black trousers, <\/i><\/b>appears to be taunting police officers on the ground floor.<\/p>\n He can be heard claiming that the police could not arrest him and appears to mockingly extend his hands, encouraging officers to handcuff him.<\/p>\n Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A man was arrested for being a public nuisance on July 3 during a firefighting operation in Yishun. The blaze, which broke out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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