The lone dead – Block 105 Towner Road
A man, 72, was found dead in a flat at Block 105, Towner Road yesterday, Nov 17.
The police and the civil defence force was alerted to the flat by residents who reported a stinging stench of decomposition emanating from the flat.
The police confirmed that they received a report of unnatural death at 9.44 a.m. on Nov 17. Paramedics pronounced a 72-year-old man dead at the scene. No foul play was suspected.
According to Chinese evening daily, Shin Min Daily News, the stench of decomposition was so overwhelming that the police even lit incense outside the flat to make it more bearable as they conducted their work at the scene.
The unit was full of cardboard and waste materials, and the corridor outside the unit was strewn with cardboard, wooden planks, plastics and other materials.
A neighbour, who declined to be named, told Shin Min that the man lives alone, behaves in a reclusive manner and has little interactions with his neighbours.
“The deceased and his family of three had moved in the unit in the 1980s, as part of the vicinity's first batch of residents”, says the neighbour who had also moved into the estate in the 1980s.
The neighbour continued, “many years ago, after his wife left him, he began to live alone”.
Reportedly, the deceased was last seen about 10 days ago.
When reporters visited the site again today (Nov 18), there was still a strong stench of decomposition.
A factory worker, Nalayani (transliterated), 69, said that as she does not spend a lot of time at home, she understands from her roommate that there has been a strong stench shrouding the corridor for the past one week [before the deceased was discovered], and the man's slippers were nowhere to be found.
“By the weekend, the stench became increasingly overwhelming, and when I came back from work yesterday morning, it was completely unbearable, and I contacted the town council to take a look”, Nalayani added.
Shortly after, the police arrived. To her understanding, the deceased man has been a divorcee for the past twenty years, and no one visits him”.
A third neighbour mentioned that the man frequents the void deck at the opposite block and the Sikh temple where he picks up his daily meals.
This is at least the third reported elderly lone death in the past month alone.
When the deceased was found, there were clear signs of decomposition, and it is believed that he has been dead for at least a week or more.
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