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SINGAPORE – An 80-year-old man, his wife, 66, and their son, 45, were killed following an incident at the elderly couple’s apartment in Lakeside on Thursday (December 10).
Police said no dirty act is suspected and they were alerted to the unnatural death case at Block 120 Ho Ching Road around 4.15pm.
The couple was found immobile and was pronounced dead at the scene by a paramedic.
Their son, who was visiting them, was unconscious when paramedics arrived, took him to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and later pronounced him dead.
Police are investigating their deaths.
The elderly man, Mr. Omar Manan, reportedly fell in the shower, and both he and his wife, Ms. Asmah Bujang, were electrocuted when she ran to help him.
Their son, Mr. Muhamad Ashikin Omar, had come to visit them with their 15-year-old daughter, according to a family friend who spoke to the Chinese newspaper Shin Min Daily News.
After a long wait outside the door, he broke it and entered the flat. Seeing his parents on the ground, he tried to revive them and was also electrocuted.
When The Straits Times went to the unit Friday afternoon, police officers were seen inside the apartment.
A neighbor, who wished to be known only as Madam Ting, told ST in Mandarin that the couple lived alone and that their son and daughter-in-law visited them almost daily.
The retiree, who has lived in the unit for about 50 years, said: “I used to talk to them from the hall every day.
“They are a very close and nice family, I can’t believe the three of them are gone.”
A wake believed to have been held at the home of a relative 1 km from the incident was underway when ST arrived.
Family members and friends of the family lined the hallway and gathered inside the apartment to pay their respects.
A relative of the family declined to comment, adding that the family wanted to be left alone.
On Facebook, Mr. Muhamad Ashikin’s wife said that her husband was a good father and son, and asked that her family be kept in prayer.
“Today (December 11) is our daughter’s 15th birthday, and (tomorrow) is my sister-in-law’s (but) she has lost her parents and her only brother,” he said.
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