Another found almost dead in Bedok Reservior

[Guest jhun_4040]

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/dead-body-scare-at-bedok-reservoir.html

Fears of another drowning in Singapore surfaced when witnesses spotted a man floating face up in Bedok Reservoir Monday evening.

Fortunately, the floating man was rescued by canoeists and joggers. He was found to be unconscious but alive and was taken to Changi General Hospital.

44-year-old sales executive Andy Koh recounted to The New Paper the events which happened at around 5:30pm.

He said a group of four canoeists were the ones who first saw the man.

“I saw them waving to get the attention of joggers. They thought he was already dead because they shouted ‘Help! We found a body!’” said Koh, who frequently jogs or cycles at the reservoir.

First to respond was software engineer Wong Kai Chuan, 33. “As I didn’t have a phone with me, I tried to stop other joggers to ask them to call the police. At first, I was a bit scared to think it was a dead person,” he said.

“But then I saw some twitching motion in his left hand so I realised he was alive.”

Koh, who was the second man on the scene, added, “Initially, I wanted to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) but then I saw his chest rising slightly and I realised he was breathing on his own.

“He looked like he was halfway through work or had just finished. I could smell alcohol on him,” said Koh of the man, who was wearing a striped polo shirt, jeans and safety boots.

Koh managed to stop another jogger, Lee Kim Chye, 48, an electrician contractor, who had a phone belonging to his daughter.

Koh said, “I was the one who called 999 because Mr Lee was not very sure how to use the phone.”

While Koh was making the call, Lee went to get the number of the nearest lamp post so that the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) would know exactly where to turn up.

While waiting for the SCDF – who arrived within eight minutes – the three joggers carried the man out of the ankle-deep water after the canoeists had brought him nearer the rocky shore.

“We didn’t hesitate, I grabbed his hands while the others grabbed his legs. He was making soft grunting sounds,” said Lee.

“He was very lucky that the canoeists were there, otherwise it would have been yet another body.”

The canoeists left the scene before the police arrived.

An SCDF spokesman told the same paper that it received a call at around 5:52pm. “We sent one fire engine and one ambulance to the location opposite Water Venture at Bedok Reservoir.

“When we arrived, the man was already out of the water. Paramedics administered treatment and conveyed him to Changi General Hospital in a semi-conscious condition.”

The man is a Singaporean in his early 50s, and rescuers said that he had a small slash wound on his left wrist, which had a plaster on it.

Lee said, “I hope he will recover and that this will be the last case.”

The police said they are looking into the matter.

This incident comes after the dead body of 33-year-old Raman Selvam, an Indian construction worker, was found earlier that day at the same reservoir – a fourth body in four months.

On 20 June, a highly-decomposed partial corpse of Chinese national Lin Xiao, 23, was found. He had been missing since April.

Last month, the bodies of Tan Sze Sze, 32, and her three-year-old son, Jerald Chin Le Hui, were found floating in the reservoir. Both bodies were found dressed in red, and locked in an embrace.

[Guest jhun_4040]

what with all this dying in this reservoir sia !!!

Scary shit !!!! Unker you always round around dere right, muz be careful dun get mindfuck by the reservoir !!

[Guest kepiting1sg]

jhun_4040 wrote:

what with all this dying in this reservoir sia !!!

Scary shit !!!! Unker you always round around dere right, muz be careful dun get mindfuck by the reservoir !!

Unker stopped running there for nearly a year liao!....scary!!!:hand:

[g8crasher]

seems to be the reservoir of choice for suicides. it's almost like taking revenge on your fellow countrymen (via "tainting" the water supply)

[Guest jhun_4040]

yar man, soon people will write a petition, tell MP to change the whole reservoir out le !!!

[Guest chiaster]

the couple dressed in red and hugging each other to die is scary... :shocked:

[Guest jhun_4040]

chiaster wrote:

the couple dressed in red and hugging each other to die is scary... :shocked:

Is mother and son bro, not couple ~

[Guest chiaster]

gosh... :shocked:

jhun_4040 wrote:

Is mother and son bro, not couple ~