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Inquiry into circumstances surrounding man found dead in his flat after attacking residents.
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16 July 2015
Man set Marsiling flat on fire after slashing others
Man shut himself in Marsiling flat and set it on fire after slashing two others http://tdy.sg/1V3Cfnj
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He also attempted to leap down from 13th floor of his block of flats, but could not fit into wall gap.
SINGAPORE — He had pulled a kitchen knife on a 60-year-old neighbour and managed to slash her cheek. But as quickly as he attacked volunteer worker Ng Yee Way, Tan Ban Huat let her go and told her to run away.
The peculiar behaviour of Tan, an unemployed man who slashed two neighbours before he shut himself in his home and set fire to it on Jan 26, emerged in a coroner’s hearing yesterday (July 15).
After the 57-year-old let Ms Ng go, he headed up to the 13th floor of his block of flats in Marsiling, the court heard. He attempted to leap down, but could not fit into the wall gap.
Tan then returned to his eighth-floor flat, set fire to it and shut himself in the toilet, where Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers found him unresponsive.
He was pronounced dead less than an hour later.
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/man-set-marsiling-flat-fire-after-slashing-others
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Marsiling man who attacked his neighbours died from smoke inhalation http://ebx.sh/1HyYt7d
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By RONALD LOH
The rag-and-bone man who attacked his Block 4 Marsiling Road neighbours in January died from smoke inhalation in his own flat that same day, a coroner’s inquiry heard on Wednesday (July 16).
On Jan 26, Mr Tan Ban Huat, 57, attacked his neighbours with a chopper and a kitchen knife at about 3.40pm.
But when firefighters were alerted to a fire in his unit at 5.15pm, they found him lifeless inside a smoke-filled toilet of his eighth-storey HDB rental flat.
He was also found with shallow cuts across his neck, forearm and thumb, but these were said by the Health Science Authority to be self-inflicted, said investigation officer Staff Sergeant Abidah Mubarak.
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