JUST 15 minutes after the 19 full-time national servicemen (NSFs) got off the bus, it exploded.
The driver of the CNG-fuelled bus died from complications arising from his burns four days later, the coroner’s inquiry into his death in the August 2010 incident heard on Wednesday.
Mr Chan Beng San, 56, had picked up the group of NSFs from Jurong Camp 1 at 6.45am on Aug 13, 2010. He drove to the Poyang Range at Old Lim Chu Kang Road and the group alighted at 7.05am.
About 15 minutes later, the group, which had left some items behind in the bus, called Mr Chan’s mobile phone.
It was answered by someone in a panicked state who told them that the bus had exploded.
Read the full report in The New Paper on Thursday (Nov 22).
