{"id":65749,"date":"2026-07-03T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65749"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:37:59","slug":"70-year-old-man-dies-after-falling-into-waters-off-pulau-ubin-no-foul-play-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65749","title":{"rendered":"70-year-old man dies after falling into waters off Pulau Ubin; no foul play suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE &#8211; A <!-- -->70-year-old man <!-- -->died after he reportedly fell into the waters off Pulau Ubin on the<!-- --> afternoon of July 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force said they received a call for assistance at <!-- -->91 Loyang Way, which is the address of both the Police Coast Guard at Loyang Base and Loyang Marine Fire Post, at about 2pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The man was retrieved from the waters and taken unconscious to the hospital, where he died, the authorities said in response to queries on July 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to Chinese media outlet 8world, the man was a boatman and was transporting construction supplies to Pulau Ubin on behalf of a contractor. He had completed unloading the cargo and was standing at the front of a boat when he lost his balance and fell into the sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police said they do not suspect foul play based on preliminary investigations, but added that investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/70-year-old-man-dies-after-falling-into-waters-off-pulau-ubin-no-foul-play-suspected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; A 70-year-old man died after he reportedly fell into the waters off Pulau Ubin on the afternoon of July 1. The police and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65750,"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-65749","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\/65749","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=65749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}