SINGAPORE : A mother and daughter fell to their deaths from their flat on the 12th storey at Block 290B Bukit Batok Street 24 on Friday morning.
Police have classified the case as "unnatural death".
Nine-year-old Bao
Pei Qin - a Primary 3 student at Keming Primary School - and her mother
were found lying on the ground floor behind their HDB block.
A witness said she heard the girl crying in pain when they found her.
But when the police and an ambulance arrived, both Pei Qin and her mother, Madam He Xue Ping, were pronounced dead.
Police said they received a call at 7.20am and the two were pronounced dead at 7.53am.
Madam He - a 46-year-old housewife - and her daughter moved to Singapore three months ago.
The family is from Shanghai but police said they hold Singapore identity cards.
Neighbours said the family kept to themselves and no fights were heard.
The
principal of Keming Primary, Kelvin Tay, said that Pei Qin was a very
hardworking girl who never gave her teachers any problems.
He
said: "It is a shock for the teachers. We will observe our children (her
classmates) and if anyone is affected, we will counsel them because we
do not want the children to be affected (by the tragedy)."
- CNA/ms
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poor girl...............................
rest in peace
3 months.... and have singapore identity cards.........
accelerated citizenship approval ah?
,,,,,,,,this is what happens to foreigners from a great country filled with more freedom when they come to spore n eventually get spore Ic
3 mths cuz highly skilled?
Originally posted by sinicker:3 months.... and have singapore identity cards.........
accelerated citizenship approval ah?
haha. didn't we recall how the gahment said that they have tighten the quota for PRs and FTs.
so they achieve that by giving them citizenship straight away and bypass the PR and FT quota issit?
The husband of the woman who fell to her death with their nine- year-old daughter from their Bukit Batok flat last week is a researcher with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star).
Dr Bao Xiaoming has worked for more than seven years at A*Star's Institute for Infocomm Research. He received his doctorate from the prestigious Jiaotong University in Shanghai.
-- ST
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can start a blog for FT news lao