{"id":78352,"date":"2026-08-21T21:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78352"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:25:03","slug":"photo-of-reported-crocodile-sighting-at-pandan-reservoir-found-to-be-fake-police-report-lodged-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78352","title":{"rendered":"Photo of reported crocodile sighting at Pandan Reservoir found to be fake; police report lodged: PUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: The photograph that was provided <span>in relation to the <\/span><span>reported crocodile sighting at Pandan Reservoir<\/span> on Thursday is fake, national water agency PUB said on Friday (Aug 21).<\/p>\n<p><span>A police report has been made, PUB said, adding that search operations for the reptile have ceased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>PUB takes a serious view of false information that may cause public alarm and disrupt activities, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The police confirmed that a report had been lodged and said that investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Water activities at the reservoir were suspended on Thursday after PUB was alerted to the potential sighting.<\/p>\n<p><span>The Singapore Rowing Association and Singapore Canoe Federation were told to suspend all water activities in the reservoir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When CNA arrived at the reservoir park near the amenities centre on Friday morning, the reservoir was mostly empty, apart from a handful of foreign workers resting in the shade of the trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Paddle Lodge, run by the Singapore Canoe Federation, was quiet too, with boats bobbing in the water and stacked on the dock. A scan of the reservoir&#8217;s 6km perimeter at noon turned up no warning signs or cordoned-off areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Water activities at the reservoir will resume from Saturday, PUB told CNA on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/pub-pandan-reservoir-crocodile-sighting-fake-photo-police-report-6333501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: The photograph that was provided in relation to the reported crocodile sighting at Pandan Reservoir on Thursday is fake, national water agency PUB said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--Vc5l8oHD--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_103\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/04\/30\/4_wildlife_4a_encountering_20wildlife_estuarine_20crocodile_201_bryanlim.jpg?itok=J4YqmKeB","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[350,2538,18490,5250,6532,1273,7718,554,2145,14584,16399],"class_list":["post-78352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-crocodile","tag-fake","tag-lodged","tag-pandan","tag-photo","tag-police","tag-pub","tag-report","tag-reported","tag-reservoir","tag-sighting","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78352","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=78352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}