{"id":43950,"date":"2026-04-12T20:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43950"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:57:41","slug":"man-95-found-dead-at-foot-of-tampines-condo-block-after-falling-from-height-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43950","title":{"rendered":"Man, 95, found dead at foot of Tampines condo block after falling from height, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 95-year-old man was found motionless at the foot of a private residential apartment block in Tampines on Friday (April 10) afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at about 4.50pm at Block 51 Tampines Avenue 1. Checks by AsiaOne indicate that it is the address of The Tropica, a 99-year leasehold condominium completed in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs seen by this publication show a police tent placed at the arrival driveway of said block.<\/p>\n<p>Debris was seen around the tent, while the roof the arrival porch showed damage.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to AsiaOne&#8217;s queries, police said the 95-year-old man was found lying motionless at the foot of the block and was pronounced dead at scene by a Singapore Civil Defence Force paramedic.<\/p>\n<p>They added that preliminary investigations do not suggest foul play and that investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"help\" style=\"background-color:#fff4de;padding:8px 10px\">\n<h3>SINGAPORE HELPLINES<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Samaritans of Singapore: 1767 (24 hours) \/ 9151-1767 (WhatsApp)<\/li>\n<li>Singapore Association for Mental Health: 1800-283-7019<\/li>\n<li>Care Corner Counselling Centre (Mandarin): 1800-353-5800<\/li>\n<li>Institute of Mental Health&#8217;s national mindline: 1771 (24 hours) \/ 6669-1771 (WhatsApp)<\/li>\n<li>Silver Ribbon: 6386-1928<\/li>\n<li>We Care Community Services: 3165-8017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>[[nid:732769]]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:editor@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editor@asiaone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>No part of this story can be reproduced without the permission of AsiaOne<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/tropica-condominium-man-95-falls-height-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 95-year-old man was found motionless at the foot of a private residential apartment block in Tampines on Friday (April 10) afternoon. The incident happened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43950","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=43950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}