Woman dies after falling into Little Guilin pond
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STOMPer Alcom chanced upon a rescue operation for a woman at Xiao Guilin, near Bukit Gombak MRT station yesterday (July 9) at 6.45pm and sent in some photos he had taken of it.In an email to STOMP on July 10, he said:
"This took place on 9th July, at about 6.45pm.
"There was a big crowd gathered at 'Xiao Guilin' in Bukit Batok.
"I asked one person within the crowd, he claimed that he witnessed a woman fall into the lake of 'Xiao Guilin'.
"The police and SCDF arrived shortly for the search of the woman.
"Police set up barricade within the scene perimeter.
"The search went on for about 25 minutes before the drivers came in to the search too.
"At about 7.35pm, they manage to find the body from the lake, but nobody saw the body as the whole area is being barricade.
"SCDF personnel slowly left the scene systematically, leaving the Police and ambulance there to gather more info on what actually took place."
STOMP contacted the Police and they said:
"The Police received a call yesterday at 6.15pm that a woman was seen struggling in the pond at Bukit Batok Town Park ."SCDF officers retrieved the body of a woman in her late 40s from the pond."She was pronounced dead at about 7.30pm."Police have ruled out foul play and are investigating the unnatural death."
SCDF says a body was retrieved from Little Guilin Lake, along Bukit Batok East Avenue 5, at about 6.15pm on July 9.
One fire engine, one Red Rhino, one ambulance, one amphibious vehicle (DART) and four support vehicles were deployed, it says.
SCDF said in its incident alert yesterday (July 9):
"This evening at 6.15 pm, SCDF was alerted to an incident at Little Guilin Lake along Bukit Batok East Avenue 5 for a reported case of person missing at the lake.
"SCDF immediately dispatched the above mentioned vehicles to the incident location and arrived within 4 minutes. Using the DART’s Amphibious Vehicle (AV), SCDF divers conducted search around the location where the missing person was last seen.
"SCDF DART personnel dived approximately 2 metres and found the body of a lady at approximately 7.20 pm. The body of the victim was located about 5 metres away from the bank.
"The victim was pronounced dead by SCDF Paramedics." -
suicide??
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more 'good' years ahead, indeed......now we have people jumping pond when there's already people jumping tracks...
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Originally posted by kengkia:
more 'good' years ahead, indeed......now we have people jumping pond when there's already people jumping tracks...
people complain that suiciders not civic minded, kill themselves also must sabo whole of singapore to be late for work, so now they quietly kill themselves lor.
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when wil we get to see 'pay and pay' jump?
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Omg there so haunted already still got people die .
7 month coming somemore .
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Originally posted by kengkia:
when wil we get to see 'pay and pay' jump?
sympathy for the dead.
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another "Gui" for the "Guilin" ..... the water ghosts changed shift liao .....