{"id":31821,"date":"2026-02-26T14:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31821"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:18:37","slug":"family-waits-as-search-resumes-for-boy-suspected-of-drowning-in-kallang-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31821","title":{"rendered":"Family waits as search resumes for boy suspected of drowning in Kallang River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>SCDF said it was alerted to the suspected drowning at about 4.30pm on Wednesday and an underwater search was conducted by rescuers from the Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to reports, the boy was believed to have been fishing when the incident happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Thursday, three SCDF officers were seen walking up and down the park connector along the Kallang River, occasionally using binoculars to scan the water, as search operations continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/boy-drowning-kallang-river-scdf-search-family-5954456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCDF said it was alerted to the suspected drowning at about 4.30pm on Wednesday and an underwater search was conducted by rescuers from the Disaster&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--07t197Ju--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/02\/26\/kallang_river_search_and_rescue_2.jpg?itok=i_8JznUi","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2326,16692,238,10392,16691,4317,1506,4834,10288],"class_list":["post-31821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-boy","tag-drowning","tag-family","tag-kallang","tag-resumes","tag-river","tag-search","tag-suspected","tag-waits","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}