SCDF NSF who died was renting Boon Lay flat with girlfriend, planned to work as security officer here

Corporal Kok Yuen Chin moved to a rented apartment in Boon Lay with his girlfriend over the past year. ST PHOTO: JONATHAN CHOO
Singapore Civil Defence Force commissioner Eric Yap (second from left) and other officers visited Corporal Kok Chin Yuen's home in Melaka to pay their respects late on May 15, 2018. ST PHOTO: JONATHAN CHOO
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MELAKA - He went to school in Melaka but had dreams of settling down in Singapore and planned to get a job and buy a flat here with his girlfriend after his national service (NS).

But the dream died when Corporal Kok Yuen Chin, 22, drowned last Sunday (May 13).

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