Dead body found floating in Bedok Reservoir
UPDATE
The body of a man believed to have drowned in Bedok Reservoir on Saturday has been found, the third such incident at the reservoir in four months..
Officers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) found the body on Monday morning after an unsuccessful search over the weekend.
An SCDF spokesman said that they were alerted of a floating body at 8:46am. One fire engine and one ambulance were immediately dispatched to the scene.
The man was declared dead at 9:22am.
According to The Straits Times, the man is believed to be 33-year-old Indian construction worker Raman Selvam.
Reports said that an eyewitness saw him walk into the water and disappear on Saturday afternoon.
One witness shouted at Selvam and threw him a life-buoy, but he disappeared into the water about 20 to 30 metres from shore.
The police received a call about the incident at about 2:30pm that same day, after which more than ten officers arrived at the scene and sealed off an area spanning four football fields.
A number of Civil Defence vehicles and naval divers were also at the scene searching for the body.
Despite a four-hour search, the body was still not found. Operations to find the body continued on Sunday at 10:30am, but ceased again at 7:10pm.
Selvam was a construction worker from a nearby site, and was married with three children.
A fellow worker said that he appeared to be depressed a few days before walking into the reservoir due to family problems.
The construction foreman, Huang, 40, said Selvam left at 12pm on Saturday, but did not return.
This is the fourth body recovered from Bedok Reservoir 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 same reservoir. Both bodies were found dressed in red, and locked in embrace.
A nearby resident, Mr Liao, 55, who was at the reservoir when the police and civil defence officers gathered, asked if there had been another drowning.
“Is the reservoir cursed?” he quizzed. “Why are there so many incidents lately?”
Another resident, Ms He, 38, a teacher, said that there have been fewer people exercising at the reservoir after sundown.
