SINGAPORE — Five people, including two children and an infant, were taken to hospital on Wednesday (July 19) following a fire at a Housing Board flat in Sengkang.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it was alerted to the fire at 280B Sengkang East Avenue at about 2.45am.
The unit was smoke-logged and the firefighters had to carefully manoeuvre their way into the unit, it added. They were taken to Singapore General Hospital for smoke inhalation and one of the adults also sustained minor burn injuries.
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