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Close shave for Punggol East home owner as glass door shatters suddenly

SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) - A mere four seconds was the difference between Mr Sito Rong Feng walking unscathed into his kitchen and being hit by a sliding glass door as it shattered into smithereens. When the wedding photographer had the close shave last month, his first thought was the safety of his 15-month-old twin sons who were playing in a playpen in the living room of the family's Punggol East flat. He found pieces of the tempered glass in the playpen, but his boys were unhurt. Glass was scattered across the living room, and Mr Sito, 38, and his wife, Ms Eldora Lie, 33, sustained minor cuts on their feet. "If I had walked slower, I would've got injured. Worse, if my boys had been sitting on their high chairs at the dining table, they could have been seriously hurt when the glass fell," he told The New Paper on Thursday (March 4). "My wife also does work at the dining table all the time. So I guess you can say it was good timing that this happened when no one was there." Footage from a closed-circuit television camera shows the door exploding with a loud sound and crashing onto the floor about four seconds after Mr Sito walked into the kitchen. Mr Sito said before they moved i...