{"id":32077,"date":"2026-02-27T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=32077"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:36:34","slug":"two-people-found-dead-in-punggol-hdb-flat-case-classified-as-unnatural-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=32077","title":{"rendered":"Two people found dead in Punggol HDB flat; case classified as unnatural death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: <span>The police are investigating a case of unnatural death after two elderly people were found dead in a Housing and Development Board flat in Punggol.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>In response to queries from CNA, the police said they were alerted to a case at Block 408B Northshore Drive at about 6.25am on Friday (Feb 27).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>&#8220;Upon arrival, officers found a man and a woman lying motionless in a residential unit,&#8221; said the police.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span><strong>The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) told CNA they received a call for assistance at about 6.30am from the same location.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span><strong>&#8220;Two persons were pronounced dead at the scene by an SCDF paramedic,&#8221; they said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Preliminary investigations revealed that the 71-year-old man and 66-year-old woman were known to each other, said the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>&#8220;The case has been classified as an unnatural death, and police investigations are ongoing,&#8221; they added.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/two-people-dead-punggol-hdb-unnatural-death-5957476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: The police are investigating a case of unnatural death after two elderly people were found dead in a Housing and Development Board flat in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--vg0cY99q--\/c_crop,h_543,w_965,x_34,y_1\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/02\/27\/screenshot_2026-02-27_121102.png?itok=rPhFOrs6","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[596,16750,4625,159,10863,4286,121,3321,9190],"class_list":["post-32077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-case","tag-classified","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-flat","tag-hdb","tag-people","tag-punggol","tag-unnatural","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32077","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=32077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}