Gunshots were fired in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) at about 7.05pm on Saturday (Jun 20), police confirmed.
Police had escorted a 24-year-old Singaporean man, who had been arrested the day before for motor vehicle theft, to KTPH to seek medical attention after he complained of chest pains. While inside one of the hospital’s examination rooms, the man attempted to escape and a struggle ensued, during which he snatched the police officer’s revolver. Shots were fired from the revolver.
The suspect was subsequently subdued and the situation brought under control, said police, who assured that members of the public were not in any danger at any time.
The suspect sustained superficial injuries, while the 31-year-old police officer sustained gunshot wounds to his thumb and foot. The police officer was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
A Khoo Teck Puat Hospital spokesman said the police officer needed immediate microsurgery on his hand and a hand surgeon was immediately available at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. On Sunday evening, police said he had already undergone surgery and was in stable condition.
The authorities added that the suspect will be produced in Court on Monday at 2pm, on a holding charge of Unlawful Discharge of Firearms under Section 4(1) of the Arms Offences Act Chapter 14, which carries the death penalty.
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia: A Singapore Airlines (SIA) aircraft, flight 425, made an emergency landing at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), Sepang, after encountering a technical problem.
A Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) spokesman said the Boeing 777-200 aircraft had departed from Mumbai, India at 8.44am and expected to arrive in Singapore at 4.44pm, made the emergency landing at KLIA at 4.05pm.
“The plane landed safely and all its passengers and crew were also reported to be safe, with no injury sustained,” he said when contacted.
The spokesman said the cause of the incident was still being investigated.
There was frustration for Scoot passengers again after a flight set to depart from Singapore to Perth on Saturday (Jun 20) evening was delayed by more than 21 hours. This is the airline’s second flight delay in three days.
Scoot said in a statement: “(Flight TZ8) was delayed at Changi Airport due to a technical issue and we regret that the delay has inconvenienced our guests.”
Dear Scoot Community, Scoot flight TZ8 to Perth was originally scheduled to depart from Singapore at 1210hrs on 20…
Videos of the scene at Changi Airport on Saturday evening show angry passengers demanding compensation while a ground handler admits to not being able to do anything, as “we are guided by Scoot”. These were allegedly taken after the ground handler announced that the flight had been rescheduled to 9.50am on Sunday morning.
Channel NewsAsia understands that before the announcement was made, passengers had had to board and disembark the plane several times.
In a letter addressed to Scoot that was seen by Channel NewsAsia, a passenger called “Cole” said they were asked to board and leave twice, saying the airline offered up six different excuses for the delays.
“First it was that the plane was delayed, then came that the tyre was worn out, then came the pilot being unable to fly because you had stretched over the time limit,” wrote Cole.
The passenger also complained that the airline had merely offered travel vouchers in compensation, and eventually asked Singaporeans to go home.
“We have already paid way more than what we budgeted for, just to stay in Changi Airport for over 10 hours for meals, and to make things worse, we had to pay two-way cab fare, which is already about $50, and you are giving us a voucher to subject us to this trouble all over again?” Cole wrote.
Perth resident William Forde, another passenger who shared photos and a video with Channel NewsAsia, said the flight had been rescheduled a total of seven times and throughout the ordeal, many passengers had stuck together: “The duty of care provided and inhumanity of this business model is alarming, but the way people came together to protest as one was inspiring and unheard of in Singapore”.
Said Mr Forde: “We were refused temporary accommodation even though many of us had not eaten, and by then the flight had been delayed for close to 21 hours.
“Some of us requested that the elderly and those with children be given a flight first, but we were rejected at every turn by a Scoot rep. As a result of our protest we were only given a S$10 meal voucher and a letter of disruption, which had details of the next flight out. But we were told these were still ‘tentative’”.
Two viewers also called the Channel NewsAsia hotline on the issue, with one saying that the last time they were asked to board the flight to Perth at 7.45pm, they were “sent off again” and “told the flight would not be taking off and would be cancelled”.
“The management just walked away without providing hotel accommodation to transit passengers and Singaporeans were asked to go home,” said the caller. “They also said the decision was final – take it or leave it. People were unhappy.”
The flight finally departed for Perth at around 10.40am on Sunday. Earlier, another flight scheduled to fly from Hong Kong to Singapore on Friday was grounded for more than 24 hours before taking off on Saturday evening.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 — After predicting the fall of the Barisan Nasional (BN) government under Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is now claiming that if the prime minister stays in power, the Malays here could become marginalised like their Singaporean brethren.
In a video of a Wednesday forum released online today by blogger Din Turtle, Dr Mahathir was seen reminding his audience that the struggle for the country is not for the personal goals of one man but for the survival of the nation, its race and its religion.
“I think we are smart people. Do we want to protect Najib? Or do we want to protect the Malays and the country?
“This is what we have to ask ourselves,” he said in his speech during the forum with several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the Perdana Foundation.
Dr Mahathir cited again the example of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) controversy, his biggest pet peeve of the Najib government, and said that he found it difficult to imagine how the firm had racked up a RM42 billion debt.
“Its hard to even imagine RM1 billion… even RM1 million, some Malays don’t recognise… this is RM42 billion,” he said.
“But if we don’t acknowledge the crime that is happening here, there is a high likelihood that we will lose and we will be divided… And we will suffer the fate of the Malays in Singapore, in southern Thailand and other places.
“Now we are thankful because we are still in power but if Najib leads the country, we will lose that power in our hands and at that point, there won’t be anyone there to offer us protection,” he said.
Dr Mahathir has been at the forefront of attacks against the Najib administration and has been actively campaigning for the prime minister’s resignation, believing the latter will lead BN to doom in the next federal polls.
Among others, Dr Mahathir has attacked Najib over his handling of the controversy surrounding 1MDB, the troubled state-owned firm that has racked up a debt of RM42 billion since its inception in 2009.
Najib, however, has refused to step down and has responded to Dr Mahathir’s accusations – several times via his blog and once through a pre-recorded interview on TV3.
Dr Mahathir, however, has refused to relent.
In his speech at the forum, the outspoken 89-year-old told Najib: “I am aware… I am old. And Najib said why listen to one man when the entire country supports him (Najib)… so why listen to one man?
“I don’t know if I am one man or I am many. But I request that if we want to save ourselves, we must show the strength of numbers… that is very important.
“We have to remind everyone that our struggle is not or one man alone. It is for our country, our race, our religion and that is our struggle.”
Despite Dr Mahathir’s persistence, Najib has fought hard to resist the former’s calls for his resignation, repeatedly responding by saying that he has the support of the leadership in Umno, the country’s ruling party and BN lynchpin.
In his latest blog post on June 12, Najib fired back at Dr Mahathir, accusing him of using the 1MDB controversy as a ploy to attack him.
Najib pointed out that if the former prime minister was genuinely interested in getting answers, he only needed to wait for the conclusion of the various investigations by the Auditor-General, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Bank Negara on 1MDB.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 — If Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak remains in office, the Malays here will become like those living under the repressive rule of the Taliban and not like Singapore’s Malays, former Umno minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said.
Zaid, who was disagreeing with Dr Mahathir’s claim that Najib’s leadership would force the Malays here to become as marginalised as Singapore’s Malays, told the former prime minister that if his assertion were true, he would gladly support Najib.
“Sorry Tun if under Najib Malays here will become like Spore Malays; I will give him full support. Malays under Najjb will be Talibans,” the former minister wrote on Twitter today.
“Malays under Najib and Hadi will abandon their culture, traditions and values. Tun M must read my new book Assalamualaikum out in Sept,” he said in another post on the microblogging site.
In a video of a Wednesday forum released online today by blogger Din Turtle, Dr Mahathir was recorded saying that if Najib stays in power, the Malays here could become marginalised like their Singaporean brethren.
The former prime minister also remind his audience that the struggle for the country is not for the personal goals of one man but for the survival of the nation, its race and its religion.
“I think we are smart people. Do we want to protect Najib? Or do we want to protect the Malays and the country?
“This is what we have to ask ourselves,” he said in his speech during the forum with several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the Perdana Foundation.
Dr Mahathir has been at the forefront of attacks against the Najib administration and has been actively campaigning for the prime minister’s resignation, believing the latter will lead BN to doom in the next federal polls.
Among others, Dr Mahathir has attacked Najib over his handling of the controversy surrounding 1MDB, the troubled state-owned firm that has racked up a debt of RM42 billion since its inception in 2009.
Najib, however, has refused to step down and has responded to Dr Mahathir’s accusations — several times via his blog and once through a pre-recorded interview on TV3.
