In a tragic end to the life of a 13-year-old boy, a wayward session inhaling butane with his two classmates turned fatal when he fell to his death from the tenth floor.
The death on May 25 this year has been declared a "tragic misadventure" by State Coroner Marvin Bay, The Straits Times reports.
The three schoolboys were inhaling butane — which induces an euphoric effect, thus the term 'laughing gas' — at an open space near a lift lobby on the 10th level of Block 24 at Bendemeer Road. Having stolen three canisters of Ronson Universal lighter refill from a shop along Bendemeer Road, the three sprayed the gaseous contents into a plastic bag or bundled shirt and inhaled them through the mouth to get high.