By Kimberly Spykerman

A BLACK-and-white colonial bungalow off Telok Blangah Road now sits partly flattened by a 20m-tall tree that crashed onto it last Thursday.

Its residents, the Conlons from Australia, escaped unscathed - mostly. Two-year-old Reesy, the younger of the family's two sons, needed some stitches for a gash on his head.

The family has moved to a serviced apartment ahead of repair works, which could take a month. The tree has been removed.

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