RAZED: The CWC meeting room at SUPP headquarters following the fire.
KUCHING: Pre-dawn fire destroys SUPP’s CWC meeting room.
The meeting room of SUPP’s Central Working Committee (CWC) at the party’s headquarters in Jalan Ong Kee Hui was razed in a pre-dawn fire yesterday.
The incident came to light when the Fire and Rescue Services Department received a distress call at 3.51am, prompting two engines from the Padungan station to be dispatched to the scene.
The flames were eventually brought under control at 4.38am, and fully extinguished at 5.10am.
SUPP secretary-general Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian and his predecessor Datuk Sim Kheng Hui were among the first to reach the scene after being notified of the incident.
Commenting on the fire, Kheng Hui said although he would leave it to investigators to determine the cause of the fire, he firmly believed it was an act of arson by irresponsible parties.
“I hope the police will speed up their investigation and arrest the culprits as I believe this (the fire) is an act of arson,” he said.
The former party secretary-general added that the fire destroyed the entire CWC meeting room, along with ‘some’ important documents.
Meanwhile, a lone elderly guard manning the security booth at the entrance of the headquarters said he did not realise a fire had broken out until police patrolmen and firemen started arriving at the scene.
Investigators were present later in the morning to collect samples and other evidence from the scene for further investigation.
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