Residents help one another escape from morning fire


Community spirit: People looking at the affected unit after a fire broke out at Block 409 Bedok North Avenue 2. — The Straits Times/ANN

AT 6.30am on Friday, Willie Toh, 45, woke up to his neighbours shouting “fire”.

The logistics driver lives in a three-room flat at Block 409 Bedok North Avenue 2, next to the unit that caught fire. Three people, including a three-year-old, have died.

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