[h=1]ONE DEAD AND 2 INJURED AFTER FIRE AND KNIFE ATTACK IN MARSILING[/h]
Post date:
26 Jan 2015 - 9:29pm
A fire and a knife attack at block 4 Marsiling Road left 2 injured and one dead.
The fire was on the 8[SUP]th[/SUP] floor and one person was pronounced dead at the scene of the fire.
The two others were injured around the third floor where a resident aged in his 50s was seen wielding a parang and arguing with another man. A woman in her 60s tried to intervene and was injured in the process.
Witnesses shared that the man in his 50s with the parang had approached the third floor unit and after the conflict, two people were injured with blood running from multiple injuries on their heads, and thighs.
The injured man was identified as A-majid Maaraf. He and the woman who was also injured have been sent to Khoo Teck Phuat Hospital.
It is understood that the man had fled the third floor after attacking the two victims and had gone up to his 8th floor apartment and set it on fire.
SCDF had to break into the apartment and found the man dead near the toilet.
A long trail of blood was also seen trailing from the 13[SUP]th[/SUP] floor to the 8[SUP]th[/SUP] floor as well as another splatter of blood at the 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] floor.
A resident on the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] floor called the police after the injured man ran into their apartment and asked for help in calling the police.
Masjid was reportedly repairing his bicycle at the corridor there when the man came at him with a parang. It is not immediately clear what sparked the assault.
Police simply explained that they are currently investigating.
Post date:
26 Jan 2015 - 9:29pm
A fire and a knife attack at block 4 Marsiling Road left 2 injured and one dead.
The fire was on the 8[SUP]th[/SUP] floor and one person was pronounced dead at the scene of the fire.
The two others were injured around the third floor where a resident aged in his 50s was seen wielding a parang and arguing with another man. A woman in her 60s tried to intervene and was injured in the process.
Witnesses shared that the man in his 50s with the parang had approached the third floor unit and after the conflict, two people were injured with blood running from multiple injuries on their heads, and thighs.
The injured man was identified as A-majid Maaraf. He and the woman who was also injured have been sent to Khoo Teck Phuat Hospital.
It is understood that the man had fled the third floor after attacking the two victims and had gone up to his 8th floor apartment and set it on fire.
SCDF had to break into the apartment and found the man dead near the toilet.
A long trail of blood was also seen trailing from the 13[SUP]th[/SUP] floor to the 8[SUP]th[/SUP] floor as well as another splatter of blood at the 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] floor.
A resident on the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] floor called the police after the injured man ran into their apartment and asked for help in calling the police.
Masjid was reportedly repairing his bicycle at the corridor there when the man came at him with a parang. It is not immediately clear what sparked the assault.
Police simply explained that they are currently investigating.
