from today's Sunday Times..
When Madam Wee Chiok took an unusually long time to come back
from a toilet visit, her friend decided to check on her.
She found a cubicle in the toilet at West Coast Park ablaze.
Upon kicking open the door, she saw Madam Wee, 68, seated on the
toilet bowl, with her whole body in flames.
They were too strong for her friend and some passers-by to put
out.
Madam Wee, who had gone to the park with her friend last Friday,
was pronounced dead by paramedics when they arrived after
8.30pm.
Two lighters and thinner were found in the
toilet, according to a report in Chinese newspaper Lianhe
Wanbao.
It also quoted her friend as saying that Madam Wee had told her
she had debt problems with loan sharks.
When The Sunday Times visited Madam Wee's four-room flat in
Jurong West yesterday, no one was at home. According to Lianhe
Wanbao, she lived with her son, daughter and daughter-in-law.
A neighbour, who would give her name only as Madam Tina and who
lives one floor below, said she saw Madam Wee at about 11am last
Friday.
'Her hands were clasped together and she was looking down as she
walked. She looked like she was troubled and in deep thought,' she
said.
Madam Tina recalled a time when her family was constantly
awakened by the sound of loud, pounding footsteps and chairs being
moved about in the middle of the night.
That stopped after she spoke to Madam Wee's daughter about the
matter.