SINGAPORE – A husband and wife were found dead in a Punggol HDB flat early in the morning on Feb 27.
In response to queries, police said they were alerted to the incident at Block 408B Northshore Drive at about 6.25am.
When officers arrived, they found a man and a woman lying motionless in a residential unit, the police said. The pair were later declared dead by a Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) paramedic.
There was blood on the floor of the flat as well.
The man was 71 and the woman was 66, the police said.
Officers found a man and a woman lying motionless in a residential unit, police said. There was blood on the floor of the flat as well.
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Police have classified the case as one involving unnatural death.
When The Straits Times arrived at 12.25pm, there were at least four police investigators outside the unit. They were wearing shoe covers and standing in an area cordoned off by the police.
Police have classified the case as one involving unnatural death.
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At about 12.40pm, two more plainclothes investigators arrived at the unit, carrying cameras, brown paper bags and a toolkit.
The couple’s godson, who declined to be named, arrived at the unit at about 2.10pm.




