{"id":99747,"date":"2026-11-15T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99747"},"modified":"2026-11-15T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T14:55:00","slug":"1-dead-1-hospitalised-after-back-to-back-incidents-at-bedok-central-hdb-block-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99747","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 1 hospitalised after back-to-back incidents at Bedok Central HDB block, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two separate incidents at the same HDB block in Bedok over two consecutive days left a 69-year-old woman dead and another woman, aged 72, taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents occurred at Block 219B Bedok Central on Nov 11 and 12.<\/p>\n<p>In response to AsiaOne&#8217;s queries, the police said they received a call for assistance at the block at about 5.20am on Nov 11.<\/p>\n<p>The 69-year-old woman was found lying motionless at the foot of the block and was pronounced dead at the scene by a Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) paramedic.<\/p>\n<p>SCDF confirmed that it received a call for assistance at the block at about 5.25am that day.<\/p>\n<p>Based on preliminary investigations, the police do not suspect foul play. Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, the police received another call for assistance at the same block at about 7.25am.<\/p>\n<p>A 72-year-old woman was conveyed conscious to the hospital and subsequently apprehended under the Mental Health Act.<\/p>\n<p>SCDF told AsiaOne it had received a call for assistance at about 7.40am on Nov 12 and conveyed one person to Changi General Hospital.<\/p>\n<h2>Resident intervenes after spotting woman on ledge<\/h2>\n<p>According to Shin Min Daily News, a resident in his 40s, identified as Lai (transliterated), had intervened after spotting a woman leaning over a ledge on Nov 12.<\/p>\n<p>Lai said he heard noises coming from the corridor outside his flat at about 7am.<\/p>\n<p>Upon seeing the woman with both hands on the ledge and half her body leaning out, he immediately shouted at her to stop.<\/p>\n<p>The woman appeared startled by his shouting and moved away from the ledge before taking the lift downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Lai then called the police.<\/p>\n<p>He also noticed that the woman appeared to have sustained injuries, leaving a trail of blood behind her.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">According to Shin Min, a trail of blood measuring about 30m was observed at the ground-floor lift lobby.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"help\" style=\"background-color:#fff4de;padding:8px 10px;\">\n<h3>SINGAPORE HELPLINES<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ef6f3ad094c9592021a80b9b0ca997a76\">Samaritans of Singapore: 1767 (24 hours) \/ 9151-1767 (WhatsApp)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e4b4a8d63a811c5d85b5424847bde4b9e\">Singapore Association for Mental Health: 1800-283-7019<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"efb67fd6b096761c06bf473c0eb5a7c73\">Care Corner Counselling Centre (Mandarin): 1800-353-5800<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"effe7ceae2a13799d96d863ddd6161981\">National mindline: 1771 (24 hours) \/ 6669-1771 (WhatsApp)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eafb9578ce56a8645fae095ac1f17ffc3\">Silver Ribbon: 6386-1928<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e8d224996a5d3016ccaf46802e9331b97\">We Care Community Services: 3165-8017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dx-token\" data-dx-entity=\"748834\">[[nid:748834]]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:crystal.tan@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crystal.tan@asiaone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/bedok-central-hdb-elderly-women-incidents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two separate incidents at the same HDB block in Bedok over two consecutive days left a 69-year-old woman dead and another woman, aged 72, taken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99748,"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-99747","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\/99747","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=99747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}