Maid dies after being pinned under church lift

A Filipino maid who died after a lift in a church came crashing down on her was given a send-off - in that very church on Monday.

Ms Clarita Abanes, 46, was seriously hurt in the freak accident at the Catholic Church of St Michael off Serangoon Road, and had been in a coma. She died last Thursday.

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