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'Once-rich businessman' dies in flat fire. Yet Another Victim of Casino!

makapaaa

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[h=3][/h]ON THE SCENE: The burnt body of Teo Leng Soon, 77, was found in a unit on the eighth floor of Block 3, Telok Blangah Crescent.


PHOTO: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS

















Published on Oct 21, 2014
[h=2]'Once-rich businessman' dies in flat fire[/h]




AN OLD man, who lived alone and was reportedly once a rich businessman, died in a fire at Telok Blangah yesterday morning.

The burnt body of Teo Leng Soon, 77, was found in a unit on the eighth floor of Block 3, Telok Blangah Crescent, Shin Min Daily News reported.

Two neighbours on the same floor - a man in his 30s and a woman in her 80s - were taken to the Singapore General Hospital due to breathlessness, The Straits Times reported.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it was alerted to the fire at about 7.15am.

Mr Teo had been living alone at the rental flat for more than a decade, but neighbours said he was once a businessman.

Li Ge Hong, who lived in the flat opposite Mr Teo, told Shin Min that the man used to be very wealthy and owned two houses. He drove a white Mercedes with a unique number plate.

"I remember his licence-plate number was very special: 2222," he said. Mr Li added that Mr Teo had gambled away his fortune and moved into the rental flat, where he lived alone.

Muhammad Fahmi Shaikmaroff, 64, who lives one storey below Mr Teo, said he thought something was wrong when he heard a thump yesterday morning, like a heavy object hitting the floor in the unit upstairs. He went up to check if anything was amiss.

"I saw thick smoke from the flat and heard some groaning. I banged on the door, but there was no response," he said.

Worried, he considered rushing home to get a hammer to try to break the door down, but firefighters had already rushed to the scene.

The firefighters forced open the door, and the blaze in the living room was put out in five minutes using a water jet.

They found Mr Teo's burnt body in the flat.

Mr Li said that when he saw Mr Teo's unit on fire, he had knocked on his door but no one answered it, so he thought the man was out.

Some neighbours thought Mr Teo had gone to a coffee shop and had looked for him there.

About 30 residents from the eighth to the 10th floors were evacuated.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.
 

Leongsam

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He's not a victim of the casino. He's a victim of his own stupidity.

I live less than 5km from the Auckland Sky City Casino and it has never caused me any grief whatsoever. I have never set foot in the place.
 

chootchiew

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He's not a victim of the casino. He's a victim of his own stupidity.

I live less than 5km from the Auckland Sky City Casino and it has never caused me any grief whatsoever. I have never set foot in the place.

haha you should have at least set foot there to drink free drinks and see how foolish some people are :wink:
 

Leongsam

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haha you should have at least set foot there to drink free drinks and see how foolish some people are :wink:

It's probably better now but in the old days it was full of smoke. I walked past the gaming hall a couple of times on the way to a restaurant and it smelled like a giant ashtray. It was freakin awful.
 

Semaj2357

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He's not a victim of the casino. He's a victim of his own stupidity.

I live less than 5km from the Auckland Sky City Casino and it has never caused me any grief whatsoever. I have never set foot in the place.

face it, it was after the seat got filched that you decided never to set foot in there and cut your losses :p
 

StinkiePeasants

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The report said that he gambled away his fortune and then moved into the rented flat where he lived for more than a decade before his death. He must have gambled away his money at overseas casinos, Toto tickets, the share market, online casinos, or casinos onboard cruise ships before RWS and MBS were opened in 2010. Although the 2 casinos could be the last straw that made him commit suicide.

A fool and his money are soon parted!
 
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