[Sg] - Elderly couple and son electrocuted to death because water heater installed in an unsafe manner (Blk 120 Ho Ching Road)

[UltimaOnline]

The elderly couple, Mr Omar Manan and his wife Mdm Asmah Bujang, had lived in the three-room flat at Block 120, Ho Ching Road since the 1970s.

On Dec 10, 2020, their son, Mr Muhamad Ashikin Omar, and his daughter went to the flat to check on them after calls to the home went unanswered.

According to a statement the daughter gave to police, they saw the elderly couple slumped on the floor of the bathroom. Water was still flowing from the shower head.

When Mr Ashikin saw his parents on the floor, he cried out and ran to them, calling “mak”. He then collapsed and fell on his mother’s body.

Believing that he had fainted, Mr Ashikin's daughter tried to shake him awake. When she touched him over the material of his jeans, she felt a “tingling sensation” near her elbow.

Paramedics arrived shortly after and took Mr Ashikin to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Mr Oman and Mdm Asmah were pronounced dead that day as well.


https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...r-installed-in-unsafe-manner-coroners-inquiry

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...ong-water-heater-bathroom-fused-wires-2551426

https://forums.fuckwarezone.com.sg/...-unsafe-manner-blk-120-ho-ching-road.6711978/

 

[mako65]

Wtf..hum kar chan? Sad indeed!

 

[rushifa666]

Think carefully. That means that circuit breaker also not working no? Just how shit this palce is

 

[rushifa666]

And why are they bathing together?

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

v funny circuit breaker

 

[tobelightlight]

The elderly couple, Mr Omar Manan and his wife Mdm Asmah Bujang, had lived in the three-room flat at Block 120, Ho Ching Road since the 1970s.

Ho Ching got a road named after her?

 

[lostvirgin]

Oh dear, just reading the title sounded like it's a group shower.

 

[laksaboy]

Ho Ching got a road named after her?

Yes, Taman Jurong area. Ho Ching Road, Tah Ching Road, Kang Ching Road, Yuan Ching Road etc.

Tranquil little town, too bad it's too near an industrial shithole.

 

[myfoot123]

And why are they bathing together?

They tried to rescue the fallen but ended up piling. Scary to think that heater is a weapon of mass destruction.

 

[rushifa666]

They tried to rescue the fallen but ended up piling. Scary to think that heater is a weapon of mass destruction.

Then we go to my first post. No circuit breaker?