Choa Chu Kang incident: woman dead, man injured

SINGAPORE – A woman has died while a man was seriously injured, following an incident on May 26 at an HDB block in Choa Chu Kang.

The woman was allegedly stabbed near the lift landing on the 12th floor of Block 248 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 2 at about 9pm, Chinese-language daily Lianhe Zaobao reported.

The man later fell from the same block and was taken away in an ambulance, according to Zaobao.

The man and woman reportedly know each other.

In a media reply, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it received a call for assistance at about 8.55pm.

A person was pronounced dead at the scene by an SCDF paramedic, while another person was taken to the National University Hospital, said SCDF.

The Straits Times has contacted the police for more information.

When ST arrived at the scene at 10pm, a police cordon was set up at the area near the block’s garbage chute.

Within the cordoned-off area were several reddish stains on the ground, along with a white cloth with red stains.

At the void deck, police officers were seen talking to a man and a woman, both of whom looked distressed.

The man was later observed wailing on the 12th floor, which was also cordoned off by the police.

A student who lives on the 12th floor said she heard a loud bang at about 9pm.

“It was like a construction sound,” she said.

Her mother arrived at the block at around 9.25pm, but was told she could not go up. She was later escorted to her unit by a police officer.

Homemaker Ms Devi, who was in the living room of her sixth-floor unit, also heard the loud noise from the foot of the block.

When she came out her flat, she saw a man lying inside a dustbin on the ground floor.

She said: “The bin was covering him, but his head and hands were exposed. He was bleeding.”

Ms Devi added that the man lived on the 12th floor.

In February, a husband and wife pair – the man was aged 71 and the woman 66 – were found dead in a Punggol Housing Board flat.

The number of murder reports was at its highest in five years in 2024, with 10 cases reported that year.