SINGAPORE — A 56-year-old Singaporean man died in a traffic accident in Turkey on Wednesday (Nov 15).
Turkish media reports said that Joseph Chean was in a taxi travelling towards Edirne — a city in the country s north-west — on the Northern Marmara Highway when it crashed into the back of a car.
Chean was taken to the Arnavutkoy State Hospital but subsequently died, the reports added.
Both drivers were also injured, and investigations into the accident are ongoing, these media reports said.
Christian training organisation Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Singapore, where the late Chean was national director for 12 years, also confirmed his death in a Facebook post on Thursday.
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