Singapore man sets mattress on fire to kill bed bugs, smoke causes death of maid living upstairs

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SINGAPORE, Aug 16 — Believing to have seen bed bugs, an elderly man sprayed them with insecticide to try to kill them, then set his mattress on fire when this did not work. The...

SINGAPORE, Aug 16 — Believing to have seen bed bugs, an elderly man sprayed them with insecticide to try to kill them, then set his mattress on fire when this did not work.

The court heard that on the day of the incident, Chia had suffered a relapse of his bipolar disorder. This resulted in him experiencing symptoms such as increased energy levels and hallucination, causing him to act dangerously.On the early morning of Jan 29 last year, Chia woke up from his bed in the living room of a 10th floor housing unit that he shared with four other occupants.

The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force officers soon arrived and they evacuated the entire block. Firefighters had to break into a locked 11th floor unit after they were informed of an occupant who was not accounted for. A mandatory treatment order is a community sentencing option offered to offenders suffering from mental conditions that contributed to the offence.

 

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