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2 taken to hospital, 60 evacuated after fire in Punggol flat
SINGAPORE – Two people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out in a Housing Board flat in Punggol on Jan 14 night.
About 60 other people were also evacuated from their homes in the neighbouring flats.
The fire at 229A Sumang Lane “involved an overheated cooking stove” and was extinguished with a water jet, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), which added that it was alerted to the incident at 11.05pm.
Blazes due to unattended cooking made up the largest proportion of fires in residential buildings.
THE STRAITS TIMES