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Yahoo! Newsroom - An 8-year-old Chinese boy was found dead at the foot of a block in Tampines Street 91 in the wee hours of Sunday morning. (Yahoo! file photo)
[UPDATED Monday 8:30am: Included identification of the boy]
A boy was found dead at the foot of Block 934 on Tampines St 91 in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
A spokesperson from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they received a call at 12:16am about an incident in the area and sent one ambulance.
Paramedics found the body of an 8-year-old boy at the foot of the Tampines block and pronounced him dead at the scene.
Police are investigating the case, which has been classified as an unnatural death.
The young boy who was found dead at the foot of an HDB block in Tampines early on Sunday morning has been identified as eight-year-old Lim Jia En.
The Junyuan Primary pupil had arrived home at Block 934 on Tampines St 91 with his parents on Saturday at about 11pm, according to Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao.
Paramedics found his body motionless at the fitness corner directly below his 14th-floor flat and pronounced him dead at the scene.
Mystery still surrounds the events leading up to his death but it was reported that he had his backpack, along with a photo of a his family with him. Police also received a ball of yellow yarn from a parapet just below his flat.
Yahoo! Newsroom - An 8-year-old Chinese boy was found dead at the foot of a block in Tampines Street 91 in the wee hours of Sunday morning. (Yahoo! file photo)
[UPDATED Monday 8:30am: Included identification of the boy]
A boy was found dead at the foot of Block 934 on Tampines St 91 in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
A spokesperson from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they received a call at 12:16am about an incident in the area and sent one ambulance.
Paramedics found the body of an 8-year-old boy at the foot of the Tampines block and pronounced him dead at the scene.
Police are investigating the case, which has been classified as an unnatural death.
The young boy who was found dead at the foot of an HDB block in Tampines early on Sunday morning has been identified as eight-year-old Lim Jia En.
The Junyuan Primary pupil had arrived home at Block 934 on Tampines St 91 with his parents on Saturday at about 11pm, according to Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao.
Paramedics found his body motionless at the fitness corner directly below his 14th-floor flat and pronounced him dead at the scene.
Mystery still surrounds the events leading up to his death but it was reported that he had his backpack, along with a photo of a his family with him. Police also received a ball of yellow yarn from a parapet just below his flat.
