Two injured, one dead after attack in Marsiling
SINGAPORE – A man was found dead after a fire today (Jan 26) at Block 4 Marsiling Road. He was also alleged to have been involved in a slashing incident before that, which left two others with knife wounds.
SINGAPORE — It started out as a heated dispute involving knives between two men, and ended with the alleged 58-year-old attacker being found dead in his Marsiling flat after it caught fire.
The incidents, which also left a 60-year-old female volunteer worker who had tried to act as a peacemaker with slash wounds, left residents of Block 4 Marsiling Road shocked as the alleged attacker had always seemed friendly.
The police said they received a call for assistance at the block, comprising two-room flats, at about 5pm today (Jan 26). Upon arrival, they found a 62-year-old man, whom neighbours identified as Mr A’Majid Maaraf, who lives on the third floor, and the unidentified volunteer worker, with slash wounds. Two knives were seized from the scene. The two, who were believed to have been injured during a dispute with a 58-year-old man, were later taken to hospital.
At around 5.20pm, it was the Singapore Civil Defence Force’s (SCDF) turn to receive a call, which said there was a fire in a unit on the eighth floor of the same block.
SCDF officers, who had to forcibly break open the door of the unit to gain entry, later found the 58-year-old man lying motionless near the toilet. He was pronounced dead at 5.59pm.
At press time, details of what happened remained sketchy. However, Mr William Teo, 51, who was making his weekly rounds delivering rice to residents at the block yesterday, said the 60-year-old female, a fellow volunteer, had gotten hurt when she tried to intervene in the dispute.
Madam Jainah Awan, a close friend and neighbour of Mr A’Majid, said following the bloody confrontation, he had fled from his third-floor unit to a neighbour’s flat on the second floor, leaving behind a trail of blood.
Mr A’Majid then locked himself in the second-floor unit and called the police, and did not leave the flat until the police arrived, she added.
Mr A’Majid’s wife, Madam Safiah Saidi, 56, said residents knew the 58-year-old man as “Peter Tan”.
Describing “Tan” as friendly, Mdm Safiah said she was not sure why he had attacked her husband.
The police said investigations are in progress.
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