SINGAPORE \u2013 A husband and wife were found dead in a Punggol HDB flat early in the morning on Feb 27. <\/p>\n
In response to queries, police said they were alerted to the incident at Block 408B Northshore Drive at about 6.25am. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
There was blood on the floor of the flat as well. <\/p>\n
The man was 71 and the woman was 66, the police said.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Police have classified the case as one involving unnatural death.<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n Police have classified the case as one involving unnatural death.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n At about 12.40pm, two more plainclothes investigators arrived at the unit, carrying cameras, brown paper bags and a toolkit. <\/p>\n The couple\u2019s godson, who declined to be named, arrived at the unit at about 2.10pm.<\/p>\n Police officers were seen talking to him and comforting him.<\/p>\n Choking back tears, he said: \u201cI only found out what happened when I saw it on the news. I saw the block number and the floor and thought \u2013 it\u2019s not possible that it\u2019s about them, but it is.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that he last saw them before Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n \u201cWe would often meet for meals. They would even wait for me to finish work before having dinner together. I don\u2019t know how this happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n A plainclothes investigator leaving the unit at about 5.30pm on Feb 27.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Mr Mike Liew, who lives three doors away from the couple, said he found out what happened only when he saw police officers along the corridor. <\/p>\n The retired executive, 73, said: \u201cIt\u2019s a shock to me. I have lived here for five years and there\u2019s never been any commotion. I didn\u2019t even hear anything out of the ordinary this morning either.\u201d<\/p>\n Describing the couple as friendly, he said: \u201cThey moved in around the same time that I did. I would always see them at the lift lobby or even at the nearby mall. They would always smile and say hello to me.<\/p>\n \u201cThe husband retired a while ago and loves to keep potted plants outside his home, but I remember he cleared them away recently. I know his wife used to work part-time at Covid-related jobs. I\u2019m not sure if she eventually retired.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Liew also said the woman who died was generous, and gave his foreign domestic helper a $20 hongbao for Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cTheir home was always the one with the most elaborate Chinese New Year decorations. I know they looked forward to this time of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n The exterior of the dead couple\u2019s flat was still festooned with streamers, banners and pineapple-themed decorations for Chinese New Year, which fell on Feb 17. <\/p>\n Another neighbour, logistics worker Muhd Shariyan, 33, said his wife heard shouts coming from the unit at around 5am on Feb 27.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a woman shouting. But we couldn\u2019t hear what she was saying. We only realised something happened when we saw SCDF officers outside the couple\u2019s home this morning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr Shariyan added that he and his wife had not seen the couple in the past two months.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore that, we usually saw them quite often. They have even been to our home before. But recently, the auntie told me her husband fell sick and was very weak.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very shocked and very sad about what happened. We were quite close to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr Muhd Shariyan said his wife heard shouts coming from the dead couple\u2019s unit at around 5am on Feb 27.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n At about 3.45pm, a group of six people arrived at the flat. Two of them told the police that they were the dead couple\u2019s children.<\/p>\n They spoke to the police for about 20 minutes before leaving, but declined to speak to reporters.<\/p>\n At around 5.40pm, an investigation officer left the unit holding a large evidence bag estimated to be around 1.3m long.<\/p>\n More investigators left the flat holding bags of evidence 10 minutes later. One bag was labelled \u201cbiohazard waste\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/picture><\/div>
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