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SINGAPORE – A friend of one of the five victims of Saturday’s terrible accident on Tanjong Pagar Road said a woman tried to save one of them and burned herself doing so.
On Saturday (February 13) morning, five people died and one was sent to Singapore General Hospital (SGH) after a car, a BMW, crashed into the front of a store there.
The Singapore Civil Defense Force was alerted around 5.40am.
Akira Chan, 21, a friend of the victims, told The Straits Times that one of the victims owned a popular Korean restaurant in the area.
He said: “They were at the restaurant at that time and were coming back when the car skidded.
“The fiancee of one of my friends in the car tried to open the door to save him and as a result she burned herself.”
ST understands that she suffered 80 percent burns to her body and is being treated in SGH’s burn unit.
Chan, who spoke to ST at the scene of the accident, said his other friends who were at the restaurant at the time witnessed the accident and were assisting in police investigations.
Family members of the victims arrived around 10:30 a.m. and are believed to have identified the bodies before they were taken to the morgue.
They were heard crying about 30 meters away, across the road from the crash site.
They left the scene around 11:30 a.m. and refused to speak to reporters.
A young woman from the group was seen collapsing on the side of the road, and the other family members appeared distraught.
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There were also two tow trucks at the scene of the accident.
The five bodies were taken to the morgue in two police hearse.
The first, with one body, arrived at 11.10 am, while the second, with the remaining four bodies, arrived at 11.25 am.
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