Man dies in canoe accident at MacRitchie Reservoir
SINGAPORE: A freelance canoeing instructor is believed to have
drowned while coaching some secondary school students at the MacRitchie
Reservoir.
According to national water agency PUB, which operates Singapore's reservoirs, the man's canoe capsized shortly after 6pm.
An eyewitness called the MediaCorp hotline and said he saw a canoe sinking and some school girls crying near the shore.
Officers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) received a call at about 6.45pm.
When they arrived, they were taken across the reservoir in a speedboat. The body had already been pulled onto shore.
Civil Defence officers found some people believed to be the victim's
colleagues and friends attempting to perform cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) on him.
SCDF officers took over CPR but the man could not be revived. Paramedics pronounced the 35-year-old man dead at the scene.
Police are investigating how he fell into the water.
- CNA/yt