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SINGAPORE – A 24-year-old man was arrested for allegedly murdering his 26-year-old wife in Boon Lay, police said Friday night (August 28).
Police received a call Thursday at 6.30pm. M. To request assistance on the empty deck of Block 211 Boon Lay Place.
The officers who arrived at the scene found a woman injured and immobile.
She was unconscious when she was taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 9.58pm.
Officers from the Jurong Criminal Investigation Department and Police Division arrested the man within three hours of the reported incident, police added.
Some residents of the Boon Lay block that The Straits Times spoke to said they saw police cordon off the crime scene Thursday night.
One resident said he had rushed out of his home to try to help the victim after his younger brother told him that a woman was lying motionless on the empty deck.
Mohamed Nasrullah, 20, a student and part-time deliveryman, said that when he arrived at the scene, there were about 10 passersby.
Realizing that the woman was still breathing, she decided to call the police for help and they arrived about 10 minutes later. Another resident called the Singapore Civil Defense Force.
“Passersby were standing by without calling the police, so I decided … to make the call,” Nasrullah said.
He was not sure if the woman was injured and did not see any visible injuries on her.
Nasrullah had not seen her around the neighborhood before and was shocked when told that the woman had died.
The suspect is expected to be charged in court Saturday with murder, which carries the death penalty or life in prison with flogging.
The police are investigating the case.
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