An elderly man had a close shave with death when a huge slab of concrete crashed down on his bed just moments after he got up.
He suffered a cut and bad bruising when the slab grazed his right upper arm.
Mr Geebian Lye, 69, and his wife were in their upstairs bedroom when they heard strange clicking sounds from the ceiling of their double-storey house at 31, Geylang Lorong 32, last Thursday.
His wife, in her 60s, managed to get of the room but Mr Lye had only got off his bed when bricks and concrete crashed through the false ceiling.
”I was stunned. It was a miracle that I survived,” he said.
A condominium was under construction next to their house. The Building Construction Authority (BCA) has since revoked the permit for construction works at the condo.
A construction supervisor from ABM Construction, which is building the condominium, said that it was an accident and was ”no big deal”.
Source: www.tnp.sg
