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  • Missing Schoolboy’s Body Found After 3 Hour Search Operation At East Coast Beach

    Missing Schoolboy’s Body Found After 3 Hour Search Operation At East Coast Beach

    The body of a missing schoolboy was found in the waters off East Coast beach on Monday (May 8) afternoon after a search operation that lasted for three hours.

    The Straits Times understands that the boy is a student from Jurongville Secondary School. He is believed to have drowned.

    The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) first announced in a Facebook post that it was alerted to a report of a missing person at around 12.25pm.

    In a subsequent update at 3.33pm, it said that the body of the missing person had by found by SCDF’s Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART) rescuers.

    “Our condolences to the family,” SCDF added in the update.

    The search was conducted along a stretch of beach near East Coast Park’s area E, which was cordoned off when The Straits Times arrived at around 2.45pm.

    At least three coastal police boats were seen searching the waters. An ambulance, two fire engines, a Red Rhino and several police cars were also spotted.

    Several students wearing Jurongville uniforms were seated at a nearby pavilion.

    A 54-year-old man, who declined to be named, told ST he was fishing at Bedok jetty when a passerby told him just before noon that a boy had drowned.

     

    Some pictures taken at the scene.

     

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    Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/

  • Body Of 50 Year Old Found In Rochor Canal

    Body Of 50 Year Old Found In Rochor Canal

    The body of a 50-year-old man was pulled from the Rochor Canal on Saturday.

    When The Striats Times visited the scene at about 1pm, the body was covered by a blue police tent near the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority of Singapore building in Lavender.

    Officers later carried a black body bag onto a police van parked in Crawford Street.

    It is understood that the dead man is an Indian Singaporean. The body was discovered at a quieter part of the canal.

    Police said they received a request for assistance at 10.20am.

    “Upon police arrival, it was established that a body of a man was found floating in the canal,” a spokesman said.

    “The body was subsequently retrieved from the river and the man was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.”

    Police are investigating the case as an unnatural death.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com