Indian teenage girl found dead in Ang Mo Kio was murdered: police
Police found the body between some bushes and the PUB substation near Block 154, two blocks away from Block 157, where the 19-year-old year victim was living with her parents. -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG
A 22-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in connection with the death of an 18-year-old Indian girl, whose blood-spattered body was found in the neighbourhood of her home, in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, early yesterday morning.
In the course of investigation, it was established that the 22-year-old suspect left Singapore even before the case was reported. All Checkpoints were subsequently alerted. At about 6.15 pm, he was immediately placed under arrest when he returned to Singapore via Woodlands Checkpoint.
Police, who were originally alerted to the case at about 7.10 am, found the body between some bushes and the PUB substation near Block 154, two blocks away from Block 157, where the teenage victim was living with her parents.
The victim, with shoulder length hair and clad in a black sleeveless top and red shorts, had neck and upper body injuries. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 7.25 am.
A resident of Block 154, who gave her name as Ms Shoba, said she was woken up by her cat at about 7am and when she looked out of her flat on the sixth floor, she saw the body of a woman lying near the substation below.
No one was in when The Straits Times went to the girl's home in Block 157. She is believed to be the only child in the family and dropped out of secondary school several years ago.
A neighbour, Mr Koh Chew Ming, 18, a student, who lives on the fourth floor, said he has seen her hanging around the block late at night on her own or with a 'tall and slim-built Indian boy'.
'I have seen her making calls from the pay phone in the next block,' said Mr Koh, who works part-time at the Night Safari and comes home late at night.
