Two bodies found in Geylang hotel room on Sunday night

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Two bodies found in Geylang hotel room on Sunday night

Published on Feb 1, 2015 10:56 PM

Two bodies were found at Hotel 81 Palace along Lorong 16 in Geylang on Sunday night. -- PHOTO: WANBAO

By Lim Yi Han

SINGAPORE - Two bodies were found at Hotel 81 Palace along Lorong 16 in Geylang on Sunday night.

Police had received a call at 7.45pm on Sunday requesting for help. A 31-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman were found motionless in the hotel room, and paramedics pronounced both dead. Police are investigating the unnatural deaths.

The Straits Times understands that the 31-year-old man is an Indian national, while the 29-year-old woman is an Indonesian. Both are believed to be work permit holders. The woman had wounds on her body, and she was partially dressed. It is also believed that there were blood stains in the hotel room and bathroom.

When The Straits Times visited the hotel after 10pm, police officers were seen speaking to the hotel staff members. There were at least seven police vehicles, including a Crime Scene Investigation van, at the scene.

Police officers also viewed CCTV footage at the hotel lobby.

Student Millie Zheng, 20, a Chinese national who is currently staying at the hotel, said: "I know this is a red light district and it can be quite dangerous but I didn't expect this. I'm really worried and I don't think I can sleep tonight."

 

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Investigators looking at CCTV footage at Hotel 81 Palace. A 31-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman were found motionless in the hotel room,
and paramedics pronounced both dead. -- PHOTO: WANBAO

Police cars arriving at Hotel 81 Palace along Lorong 16 in Geylang. Police had received a call at 7.45pm on Sunday requesting for help. -- PHOTO: WANBAO



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Geylang deaths: Maid's throat cut, man found hanged

Lim Yi Han The Straits Times Thursday, Feb 05, 2015

SINGAPORE - Ms Ruli Widyawati's employer was expecting her to return home on Sunday evening but, instead, got a call at midnight saying the Indonesian maid, 29, had been found dead in a hotel room in Geylang with her throat cut.

Also discovered in the same third-floor room at Hotel 81 Palace in Lorong 16, according to reports in the Chinese newspapers Shin Min Daily News and Lianhe Wanbao yesterday, was Mr Chinnasamy Baskar, 31, a construction worker from India, who was found hanged.

Ms Ruli was married with two young children in Indonesia. Mr Chinnasamy was not married.

Police received a call at about 7.45pm on Sunday. The pair, who were pronounced dead by paramedics, had reportedly checked in at around 5pm, and were supposed to check out by 7pm.

A hotel employee discovered their bodies and called the police.

Ms Ruli had worked in Singapore before and had just returned last month with another agency. The owner of the agency, who did not want to be named, told The Straits Times he was shocked as she had a good record.

The Indonesian Embassy said it had informed her family and would fly her body to her home town in Solo, near Yogyakarta, tomorrow. Her children are said to be 10 and six years old.

Her employer, who declined to be named, told Lianhe Wanbao yesterday she had been hired recently.

Mr Chinnasamy's employer, who also did not want to be named, said the dead man had been in Singapore for about five years, and that he was hard-working.

The High Commission of India said that it was in touch with Mr Chinnasamy's family and would also work with a casket operator to send back his body after police investigations are completed.

Police have classified the case as unnatural deaths.

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