Published on Jul 16, 2013
10:52 PM
AN army regular was found dead in the Singapore Armed Forces
training area in Lentor on Tuesday, said the Defence Ministry.
In a statement released on Tuesday night, Mindef said First Warrant
Officer (1WO) Rajendran Pachemuthu,51, was found hanging from a
rope in the Lentor training area by two civilian contractors who
were maintaining SAF training equipment.
There was no SAF training conducted in the area in the last two
days, Mindef added.
The contractors reported the incident to Master Warrant Officer Ong
Chin Sai, a commander from Engineers Training Institute, who headed
to the site and made a police report at 12:20 pm.