by Lorna Tan, Finance Correspondent

HUNDREDS of anxious customers jammed the phone lines of British insurer Prudential Assurance Singapore yesterday, after their premiums were deducted twice this month.

Prudential said a technical glitch had caused the Giro banking error.

By 11am, it had received about 300 calls from worried customers, including Madam Ann Chow - who realised that her bank account was short of $320 when she withdrew cash at an ATM yesterday morning.

For more The Straits Times stories, click here.