Man, 56, dead after fight in Chin Swee Road; three men arrested

When ST arrived at the block at about 1.45pm, the police had cordoned off flats from the 15th floor to the 19th floor.

Resident Chua Chai Thiam, 67, who lives on the 15th floor, said he heard a group of men shouting between 1am and 2am on Nov 8.

Mr Chua said he did not recognise anyone in the group.

“It was quite scary. I’ve lived here for over 10 years and I have never seen anything like this before.”

Another resident, 47-year-old Suresh, who lives on the 17th floor, said he heard two men hurling Hokkien profanities at each other at about 2am.

“It was very noisy, they sounded very angry,” he said, adding that he thought it was a family dispute.

At about 2pm, police officers were seen placing evidence markers next to bloodstains along the 19th-floor corridor.

This is the sixth reported murder in 2025 and comes barely two weeks after an Indonesian national

in a Chinatown hotel room. She is believed to have been stabbed with a knife.

Knife-related incidents were noted by the police to have

, compared with the same period in 2024.

Their midyear crime brief, released on Aug 26, showed there were 75 knife-related incidents, up from 59 in the first half of 2024.

In general, physical crime had risen, with 10,341 cases reported from January to June, marking a 5.4 per cent increase from the 9,809 cases reported during the same period the previous year.