Quote: He said: "They were at the restaurant around the time and were going back when the car skidded.
Going back? Car skidded?
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CNY Tanjong Pagar accident: Woman badly burnt trying to save boyfriend from burning car, says friend
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Five people were killed and one sent to Singapore General Hospital after a car, a BMW, slammed into the front of a shophouse.
ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
David Sun and
Fabian Koh
13 FEB 2021
SINGAPORE - A friend of one of the five victims in
Saturday's horrific crash at Tanjong Pagar Road said a woman tried to save one of them and got burned doing so.
On Saturday (Feb 13) morning, five people were killed and one sent to Singapore General Hospital (SGH) after a car, a BMW, slammed into the front of a shophouse there.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force
was alerted at about 5.40am.
Mr Akira Chan, 21, a friend of the victims, told The Straits Times one of the victims ran a popular Korean eatery in the area.
He said: "They were at the restaurant around the time and were going back when the car skidded.
"The fiancée of one of my friends in the car tried to open the door to save him and was burned as a result."
ST understands she suffered 80 per cent burns to her body and is being treated at the SGH burns unit.
Mr Chan, who spoke to ST at the accident scene, said his other friends who were at the restaurant at the time witnessed the accident and were assisting in police investigations.
The family members of the victims arrived at about 10.30am, and were believed to have identified the bodies before they were taken away to the mortuary.
They were heard wailing from about 30m away, across the road from the site of the crash.
They left the scene at about 11.30am and declined to speak to reporters.
A young woman among the group was seen breaking down by the side of the road, and the other family members appeared distraught.