A woman in her 40s and a four-year-old girl were found dead at
the foot of a Jurong block of HDB flats on Friday afternoon.
The victims are believed to be Bangladeshis, said The New
Paper, which first reported the story.
Police, who have classfied the case as unnatural deaths, have
not released the names of the victims, who were found at the foot
of Block 695B in Jurong West Street 65.
An HDB estate cleaner, Abdul Rahman, who is also from Bangladesh
and has been working in the estate for the last two years, told the
paper that he was returning from his Friday prayers when he came
across the bodies.
The 24-year-old said he knew both victims, and that he often saw
the woman and her husband walk the little girl to a nearby
kindergarten.
"They appeared to be a happy family," he said.
Meanwhile a Madam Tan Jak Hoon, who lived on the 16th floor of
the same block, said the victims could have used a broken chair
that was stored outside her flat to climb over the parapet before
their fall.
She said that the chair, which had been left outside her
five-room flat for the past two years, had been moved from its
original location and that a "visible footprint" of an adult could
be seen on it.
-- Yahoo!