[UPDATED: on 9 December at 4:40pm, adding more details from police]
A 55-year-old Singaporean bus driver is assisting police with investigations into a fatal accident that resulted in the death of a 33-year-old Indian national, and the first riot in Singapore in more than 40 years.
The unnamed driver, who is believed to have run over the construction worker -- reportedly identified as Sakthivel Kumaravelu -- is likely to face charges for causing death by a negligent act, said the police in a statement issued Monday afternoon. If found guilty, the driver is set for a maximum penalty of two years' imprisonment, a fine, or both.
An estimated 400 people rioted in Little India late Sunday night shortly after the accident involving the private bus and the construction worker, the latter of whom was crossing the junction between the two roads, at 9:23pm, police said.
First responders from SCDF who arrived at the scene saw Kumaravelu, who was pronounced dead on the scene, trapped under a bus. During efforts to extricate him from under the bus, projectiles such as bottles started to be thrown at the personnel as tensions escalated.