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Another Body Found at Bedok Reservoir in Singapore
Jessica Lim and Siau Ming En - Straits Times Indonesia | January 29, 2012

Divers retrieving the body after a four-hour search at Bedok Reservoir on Saturday. Police have classified the case as an unnatural death and investigations are ongoing. (Straits Times Photo/Chew Seng Kim) Divers retrieving the body after a four-hour search at Bedok Reservoir on Saturday. Police have classified the case as an unnatural death and investigations are ongoing. (Straits Times Photo/Chew Seng Kim)
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Singapore. Yet another body has turned up at Bedok Reservoir — the seventh in the last eight months.

The body of a man was found there yesterday at 5:20 p.m., after a four-hour search by divers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF).

The police received a call from a member of the public at 1 p.m., informing them that a person had been seen going into the water of the reservoir.

The body of the man, who looked to be Malay, was retrieved 20m from the shoreline by the SCDF. He was pronounced dead at 5:27 p.m. by paramedics.

Joyce Poon, 36, was jogging near aerial obstacle course Forest Adventure when the police started to cordon off the place.

“I was asked to leave as police cars and ambulances surrounded the area,” said the corporate communications manager.

The Sundays Times understands that a parent of one of the children at Forest Adventure saw the man walking past one of the aerial courses before stepping into the water.

Investigations are ongoing and the police have classified the case as an unnatural death.

There have been six other bodies found in the reservoir since June last year.

The first case was that of 23-year-old Chinese national Lin Xiao. Only the lower half of his body was found.

Another five cases followed, with the last one involving the death of a 48-year-old Singaporean man on Nov. 5 last year.

National water agency PUB said it has stepped up patrols in the area and kept lamps around the reservoir fully lit throughout the night, in the light of the spate of deaths there.

It has also installed signs showing Samaritans of Singapore helpline information.

When contacted, a PUB spokesman said its regular round-the-clock patrol team was on duty at the reservoir yesterday.

She declined to reveal more as police investigations are under way.

Reprinted courtesy of Straits Times Indonesia. To subscribe to Straits Times Indonesia and/or the Jakarta Globe call 021 2553 5055.