FT killed another FT

[Ginchiyo Tachibana]

Singapore
Feb 15, 2010

Accident kills foreign worker

By Maria Almenoar <!-- by line -->

A FOREIGN worker died after a lorry driver apparently lost control of his vehicle and ploughed into three pedestrians at a dormitory in Toh Guan Road East early Monday morning. The driver, a 36-year-old Indian national, is now under arrest for suspected drink-driving. The police said the accident happened shortly after 1am as the lorry was turning round the bend on the road. It mounted a kerb, hit a fire hydrant and narrowly missed a tree before slamming into the pedestrians and the Westlite Dormitory's compound wall and fence. <!-- end by line -->

The dead man, 25, was a resident at the dormitory and worked at Mun Siong Engineering. The dormitory, which has 4,000 workers, is one of several places where foreign workers are housed in the area. His name was not disclosed as his family has not been informed. He was trapped under the lorry and had to be extricated by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) using hydraulic spreaders.

Read the full report in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

[chrisssteeven]

Right now he is in the hospital in stable condition after he was shot by a female police officer.At this time nobody knows his reason for the shootings. Initially people thought there were three shooters but now it has been confirmed that there is only one.