Faulty equipment causes Singapore soldier to lose both legs and an arm in accident

Yahoo! News Singapore, 12 Dec 2012
A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) regular serviceman who was critically injured following a routine exercise on board a navy ship on Monday afternoon has reportedly lost both legs and an arm.
Weapons systems supervisor, Military Expert (ME) 2 Jason Chee Weng Fai was caught between a motorised winch and rope as he was checking the berthing rope on board the RSS Endeavour.
Quoting a Defence Ministry official, the daily broadsheet added that fault equipment could have been the cause of the accident on Monday. Full story

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