A 38-year-old man suspected of setting fire to a flat and killing his two young children, later fell from a high floor and died in hospital in Singapore.

The incident, believed to be murder-cum-suicide, took place at Block 543 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 on Saturday night.

Police received information at about 9.50pm that a four room flat on the sixth floor was on fire. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted too.

When they arrived at the scene, a body of a man was found lying at the foot of the block, badly injured.

He was believed to have run up to the 12th floor and leapt off. He was rushed to hospital where he died later.

When officers went up to the burnt flat, they found the bodies of a boy, five and a girl, three, who were said to be the man's children.

Neighbours said they often heard quarrels and sounds of breaking glass from the flat.

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