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The Red Cross estimates that more than 90,000 people are likely to have been affected by the disaster.

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2 taken to hospital, 200 evacuated after fire breaks out in Choa Chu Kang flat

The fire involved items in a bedroom of a unit on the second floor.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it was alerted to the blaze at Block 287 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 2 at about 9.05pm on Aug 29.

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