FOR 15 minutes on Saturday, a construction worker dangled precariously from a gondola seven storeys up when one of the cables holding it up went slack.

Rescuers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force worked above and below him to get him safely down Block 4, Sago Lane in Chinatown, where the worker was fixing windows as part of upgrading works.

One team pitched a ladder to reach him from the fourth floor concourse. They secured him to a rescue rope which was lowered by another team working out of an eighth floor apartment.

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