A 68-year-old woman died after she was found burnt in one of the public toilets along West Coast Park on Feb 6.Johnson was in the vicinity at about 8 pm, and caught sight of police officers and SCDF personnel milling around the area.
He describes the scene:
"I witnessed this in West Coast at around 8pm."An ambulance, a police car, a civil defence Rhino and I think there was also a fire engine there."They rushed into the ladies' toilet next to the playground and then immediately cordoned off the area including part of the playground.
"Then, I saw an old lady crying."A policewoman was consoling her. More policeman came and took many photos as many flashes can be seen coming from the toilet. Some plainclothes officer came and went into the toilet."Some policemen were also searching the area with flashlights as if looking for something."
The SCDF says it received a call about this incident at about 2033 hrs.
A female Chinese, 68, was found burnt at West Coast Park in one of the cubicles in a public toilet.The woman was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.
The police have classified this as an unnatural death and are investigating.
any idea if it accident or suicide?
spontaneous human combustion
omgs im still wondering how this can happen =X
there's methane gas in toilets..
so smoking is not a very gd idea as it can just react with the gas & explode..
Originally posted by QX179R:there's methane gas in toilets..
so smoking is not a very gd idea as it can just react with the gas & explode..
flatulence?
something like dat..
so she probably smoked, farted while throwing the cig into the toilet, something went boom and she got burnt?
A 68-year-old woman died after she was found burnt in one of the public toilets along West Coast Park on Feb 6.
so... you tellin me that she died AFTER she was found burnt in the public toilets? what the?
gotta wait for the coroner report to find out wat was the exact cause..
but dun think de "report" will be announce to public... ...
Haiz so Unlucky Who the hell did that must be a shen jing bing
Cat A fire.
so how... any official report on stomp or any source?
could be suicide...she must have hydrogen flasks with her....
If it is suicide than it is very sad.....
All this talk about inclusion and leaving no people out and
again and again, we seeing this sort of thing.......
from today's Sunday Times..
When Madam Wee Chiok took an unusually long time to come back from a toilet visit, her friend decided to check on her.
She found a cubicle in the toilet at West Coast Park ablaze. Upon kicking open the door, she saw Madam Wee, 68, seated on the toilet bowl, with her whole body in flames.
They were too strong for her friend and some passers-by to put out.
Madam Wee, who had gone to the park with her friend last Friday, was pronounced dead by paramedics when they arrived after 8.30pm.
Two lighters and thinner were found in the toilet, according to a report in Chinese newspaper Lianhe Wanbao.
It also quoted her friend as saying that Madam Wee had told her she had debt problems with loan sharks.
When The Sunday Times visited Madam Wee's four-room flat in Jurong West yesterday, no one was at home. According to Lianhe Wanbao, she lived with her son, daughter and daughter-in-law.
A neighbour, who would give her name only as Madam Tina and who lives one floor below, said she saw Madam Wee at about 11am last Friday.
'Her hands were clasped together and she was looking down as she walked. She looked like she was troubled and in deep thought,' she said.
Madam Tina recalled a time when her family was constantly awakened by the sound of loud, pounding footsteps and chairs being moved about in the middle of the night.
That stopped after she spoke to Madam Wee's daughter about the matter.
Ouch...a painful way to die..burn yourself to death....may she rest in peace
it's a myth that smoking in the toilet where inside the cubicle has explosive water would make you explode off the seat or get you burn
the water is still dere to kill the flame
....sigh...........................
God Bless her poor old soul......
may she resting in peace......
dat's like ... such a sad story... ...
but why resort to such a way to comit suicide??
sad..
So sad.