Man found dead on void deck table

SINGAPORE - He had often been seen loitering at the void deck and sleeping on the tables.

So when residents saw him lying on a table at the void deck of Block 121, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, on Friday morning, most of them did not think it unusual.

Until they saw police officers covering his body with a white sheet.

Police said that a call asking for assistance was received at about 9.50am.

Paramedics pronounced the man dead upon arrival.

The New Paper understands that the dead man is in his 60s.

When his body was found, he was clad in a blue floral shirt and black pants.

Lived nearby

The man is believed to live in a nearby block.

One resident, who is in his 70s and declined to be named, said he often saw the man sleeping on the tables at the void deck of Block 121.

"He would often have coffee at the nearby coffee shop and would come to this void deck to sleep on the tables," he said in Mandarin.

"He was always here in the day, but I don't know where he went at night." A shopkeeper at a nearby coffee shop said the man looked fine when she saw him on Thursday night.

"He even bought a radio for $40 from one of the shops," she said.

The man's older brother later arrived at the scene on his bicycle.

"The police came knocking on my door and they told me that my brother was dead," he told TNP before making his way past the police cordon.

He appeared calm when shown his brother's body.

He was later overheard telling police officers that his two other siblings were unaware of their brother's death.

"I don't know what happened to him. Sorry, I have to inform my siblings now," the man said, before cycling away.

Police are investigating the unnatural death.

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