By Nur Dianah Suhaimi

There is little room for patience, it seems.

A group of Vietnamese and Chinese foreign workers created panic in Geylang last Tuesday evening when they got into a fight in a dormitory. The cause is not known.

Wooden poles and kitchen knives were used in the attack which lasted some 10 minutes and left three injured. The police have arrested three people.

CLASHES IN THE PAST

2000
The body of Bangladeshi worker Farhad Hossain was found near a construction site in Tuas View Circuit with the head cut off and dumped in a muddy trench 300m away.

His fellow worker and roommate, Abdul Based Late Nasin Uddin, was arrested by the police but was later acquitted due to insufficient evidence.

2001
Indian ship electrician Arun Prakash Vaithilingam stabbed one of his housemates with a kitchen knife when the latter commented that he spent too much time in the toilet in the morning. The housemate, welder Lourdusamy Lenin Selvanayagan, also an Indian national, died hours later.

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