{"id":81016,"date":"2026-08-31T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=81016"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:41:59","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-victim-slashed-in-neck-with-chopper-in-tuas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=81016","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after victim slashed in neck with chopper in Tuas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: A 25-year-old man was charged on Monday (Aug 31) with murdering a 29-year-old man along a road in the Tuas industrial district over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Muruganathan Kathirvel, an Indian national, is accused of causing the death of Mr Raj Maheshkumar by slashing his neck area with a chopper at about 10pm on Aug 29 along Tuas South Avenue 9.<\/p>\n<p>The police said in an earlier statement that they received a call for assistance along Tuas South Street 15, towards Tuas South Avenue 14 at about 10.10pm on Aug 29.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, they found the victim lying motionless on the road. He was later pronounced dead at the scene by a paramedic.<\/p>\n<p>Kathirvel was arrested within four hours. Preliminary investigations suggest that the victim and the accused know each other.<\/p>\n<p>Kathirvel is set to return to court in September.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted of murder, he could be sentenced to death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/man-charged-murder-chopper-tuas-6351626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: A 25-year-old man was charged on Monday (Aug 31) with murdering a 29-year-old man along a road in the Tuas industrial district over the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--Bg_BLorZ--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_143\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2024\/03\/12\/jem_0152.jpg?itok=zLClqFoS","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[141,18551,140,62,4439,8526,9907,2000],"class_list":["post-81016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-charged","tag-chopper","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-neck","tag-slashed","tag-tuas","tag-victim","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81016","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=81016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}