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SINGAPORE – About three weeks before a tragic event on Thursday (October 29) ended with a 35-year-old mother who fell from a Housing Board block with her five-week-old daughter, a resident who lived in the same Block noticed that the woman looked sad.
Madam Low, who is in her 80s, said: “She looked very pale and her baby was still crying loudly in the elevator.
“I am not familiar with her or her family, but I thought she was a very quiet and reserved young woman,” Madam Low added in Cantonese. She declined to give her full name.
Police are investigating the incident as a case of unnatural deaths.
The woman and her young daughter were pronounced dead at 5:47 p.m. Thursday after their bodies were found at the foot of Block 81 Bedok North Road.
The Straits Times understands that the couple had lived on the same block. No one was home when ST visited the unit, but there was a bag of food and a note on the door.
The woman was married.
The presence of a green scooter and a dark blue mini bike off the floor suggested that a small child might also be residing in the unit.
On the empty deck, family and friends were helping to prepare a wake.
Ms. Janie Teoh, who lives nearby in Block 78, said she saw the bodies lying about 2 meters away when she passed through the area.
“The police had just arrived and they were covering the bodies,” said Teoh, 33.
College student Goh Yuchien, 24, who lives in Block 81, said he arrived home around 7 p.m. Thursday and saw a blue police tent at the scene.
Madam Low said: “It is so tragic that such a young life is lost. No problem is too difficult to solve.”
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