Man with multiple stab wounds found at Marsiling
A man with multiple stab wounds was found lying in a pool of blood after a fight broke out early morning in Marsiling.
The police found the 51-year-old victim at Block 131, Marsiling Rise at 7am after being called to the scene.
Witnesses said that they saw two men fighting with each other, after which one of them stabbed the other repeatedly and fled.
One of the witnesses, who only wanted to be known as Madam Lim, told the The New Paper (TNP), "I was asleep and woke up when I heard the commotion. Suddenly, one of the men pulled out a knife and started stabbing the other one repeatedly."
Marsiling resident 23-year-old Fazleena Ramly, who saw the incident from her flat, told the paper, "The victim seemed badly injured and couldn't move at all."
According to the police, the assailant is believed to have fair complexion, described to be in his 50s and was last seen in a grey short-sleeve shirt with flower prints and grey bermudas.
Lianhe Wanbao reported that the fight could have happened due to a territorial dispute regarding the sale of contraband cigarettes.
The report quoted an unnamed resident saying that the victim, nicknamed "Ah Pui" (Fatty in Hokkien), was a familiar face in the neighbourhood and had previous conflicts with a man nicknamed Tiger over illegal cigarette sales.
Ah Pui, who lives alone in a flat around the area, is believed to have been selling his wares at the alleyway next to a coffee shop behind Block 132.
However, a shop owner, who declined to be named, said that he did not believe the victim, who was always friendly and helped him carry goods, sold illegal cigarettes.
He told TNP that he was "completely shocked" by the stabbing.
Said 65-year-old retiree Ismail Halim, "I've been living here for nearly 20 years and it is normally very peaceful."
You do see people hanging out at the coffee shop till the early hours of the morning but you don't hear of anything like a stabbing before."
The victim is believed to be recovering at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the police are now conducting investigations to find the suspect.
