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  • 10/24/2024
A seven-year-old boy lost his life after being crushed by heavy debris from a concrete decorative slab that fell off a three-storey shophouse at Kompleks Al-Azim in Bukit Baru, Melaka on Tuesday (Oct 22).

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00:00A seven-year-old boy lost his life after being crushed by heavy debris from a concrete decorative
00:07slab that fell off a three-storey shophouse at Kompleks Al Azim in Bukit Baru, Malacca.
00:14Malacca Tengah District Police Chief ACP Christopher Patit said the victim's five-year-old brother
00:19and his 42-year-old father escaped with minor injuries in the 10.15pm incident on Tuesday.
00:27Police identified the deceased as Ong Loon Keat from Bukit Pulau.
00:31Ong and his brother had accompanied their father on a motorcycle to a nearby bank before
00:36the incident occurred.
00:38Six motorcycles parked outside the building were also damaged.
00:42The victims were taken to hospital by passers-by.
00:45ACP Christopher said the post-mortem report revealed that the deceased succumbed to multiple
00:51injuries suffered from the impact of the falling debris.
00:55The case has been classified as sudden death.

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