Singapore mall evacuates shoppers due to fire

Shoppers were evacuated from Chinatown Point on Friday morning after a store near the shopping mall’s main entrance caught fire.

Flames could be seen behind the glass facade of Luxury City, a luxury handbag consignment and cleaning store, Channel News Asia reports.

Security gaurds ushered people out of the mall and prevented others from entering through the main entrance and via Chinatown MRT station.

White smoke filled part of the mall's first floor and an acrid smell hung in the air.

A loud sound was heard at about 10:30am and two long cracks could be seen on the storefront glass panel of the handbag shop.

Upon hearing the sound, mall staff members moved a metal barricade from a nearby McDonald’s outlet to prevent pedestrians from getting too close to the glass and warned that it may “explode.''