SINGAPORE: A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)
full-time National Serviceman died during training on Tuesday.
Private (PTE) Lee Rui Feng Dominique Sarron, 21, from the 3rd
Battalion of the Singapore Infantry Regiment, experienced breathing
difficulties at about 12.30pm while participating in a platoon
exercise at Murai Urban Training Facility at Lim Chu Kang.
A statement from the Defence Ministry said he lost consciousness
soon after at 12.33pm.
Mindef said an SAF medic attended to him
immediately.
Private Lee was sent to Sungei Gedong Medical Centre at 12.46pm
and then to the National University Hospital (NUH) at 1.03pm.
An SAF doctor continued to resuscitate him
in the ambulance en route to the hospital.
He was pronounced dead at 2.05pm at NUH.
This is the third reported death involving SAF personnel this year. The earlier two involved an NS
man in January, and a full-time NS man in March.
- CNA/de
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how many already?
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