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The body of a 78-year-old man who lived alone in a Lengkok Bahru flat was found last Saturday (July 25), more than a week after he was last seen around the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
Volunteers making the rounds that morning had noticed last week’s bread still hanging on his gate and called the police for help, reported Shin Min Daily News.<\/p>\n
A reporter from the Chinese evening daily visited Block 58 Lengkok Bahru and observed that the dead man’s flat was filled with clutter.<\/p>\n
His relatives arrived at the home at about 4pm, and they burned joss paper when his body was taken away at about 5.30pm.<\/p>\n
The deceased, who was unmarried, <\/strong>was identified as Lin Yaba (transliteration) by Shin Min.<\/p>\n A neighbour surnamed Chen, who last saw Lin on July 16, said Lin used to ride his bicycle every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The volunteers visited (on July 25) and discovered that the bread from last Saturday (July 18) was still hanging at the door,” he claimed.<\/p>\n Lin’s younger sister said her brother had always been in good health, though he had complained about prostate issues about two weeks ago.<\/p>\n His death came as a shock to her, she said.<\/p>\n The police said they received a call for assistance at the block about 12.20pm on July 25.<\/p>\n The 78-year-old man was found lying motionless in a residential unit and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n Foul play is not suspected, and police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n [[nid:740695]]<\/p>\n lim.kewei@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The body of a 78-year-old man who lived alone in a Lengkok Bahru flat was found last Saturday (July 25), more than a week after…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72434,"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-72433","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\/72433","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=72433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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