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SINGAPORE \u2013 One of the victims of a fire in a Housing Board flat in Race Course Road<\/span><\/a> on Aug 3 has died in hospital, the police said on Aug 5.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Officers from the Rochor Neighbourhood Police Centre forcibly gained entry into the locked flat in an attempt to save the occupants, said the police.<\/p>\n They rescued a woman from the unit, and she was among those taken unconscious to hospital.<\/p>\n The remaining four people were rescued by the SCDF shortly after.<\/p>\n According to the SCDF, a bedroom in the flat was ablaze when firefighters arrived.<\/p>\n The three unconscious persons were taken to Singapore General Hospital and the other two to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, said SCDF in a Facebook post on Aug 3.<\/p>\n They were aged between 55 and 88, said the police on Aug 5.<\/p>\n The fire was extinguished with a water jet, SCDF added.<\/p>\n About 50 residents were evacuated from the block, police said.<\/p>\n Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n This is the third deadly fire in about a week.<\/p>\n On July 31, a fire in a Clementi flat left one person dead,<\/span><\/a> and two firefighters were taken to hospital for burn injuries.<\/p>\n On July 28, a 70-year-old man died<\/span><\/a> after a fire broke out in an HDB flat in MacPherson.<\/p>\n