Half a body found floating in Bedok Reservoir
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and lock toilet otherwise Newater also gone case.
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where does bedok reservoir supply water to?
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Originally posted by sean29:
where does bedok reservoir supply water to?
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Originally posted by lemon1974:
Half a body found floating in Bedok Reservoir
SINGAPORE: A decomposed partial body was found floating in Bedok Reservoir Monday morning.
Police received a call for assistance at 10.30am and found the body floating in the water.
MediaCorp understands just the lower half of the body was found.
It’s not known if the body is male or female.
Police investigations are still ongoing.
— CNA/cc
from http://news.xin.msn.com/en/singapore/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4952089
you know PPM?
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how? have they found the better half?
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Anyone sent a request to change the reservoir yet?
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is it him?
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most likely they will say yes then ask for compensation...
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Bedok body may be missing China national's
THE father of a Chinese national missing here since late April was yesterday called in by the police to identify the partial body found in Bedok Reservoir.
Mr Lin Zuliang, 48, had come to Singapore from China's Zhejiang province to look for his son Lin Xiao, 23, who left for work at 8am on April 28 and has not been seen since.
He declined to speak to reporters at the mortuary yesterday, but it is believed that he thinks the remains are those of his son, going by the belt and jeans that the body was clad in.
The younger Mr Lin, an apprentice at Lee Sheng Motor Works, lived with his mother in Chai Chee, and was last seen wearing a dark blue T-shirt with a red collar and faded jeans.
The New Paper reported last month that his parents, who are divorced, had come together to offer $10,000 to anyone who could tell them where their missing son was.
The older Mr Lin came here in the middle of last month to scour the island for his missing son; his ex-wife Hu Ping Zhu, a 43-year-old hawker, also spent nights searching for him and putting up 30 flyers.
-- ST
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Body in Bedok Reservoir: PUB says water safe to drink
SINGAPORE: National water agency PUB says the water treatment process at its Bedok plant is stringent, ensuring that its water is safe to drink.
The assurance comes after part of a decomposed body was found floating in the nearby Bedok Reservoir.
The water treatment process at the Bedok facility takes six steps, two of which involve an enhanced disinfecting technology called ozonation.
The treatment starts at four tanks, each containing high-voltage electricity.
Ozone - a gas converted from oxygen - is produced in the tanks.
When infused with water, ozone kills bacteria and micro-organisms like algae and plankton which float on the water surface initially.
A coagulant called aluminium sulphate is then used to clump the dead particles. Due to their combined weight, the dead particles sink to the bottom of the tanks, leaving clarified water at the top.
At this point, the water looks relatively clean, but it will go through three more steps to ensure it is safe to drink.
Ozone is introduced to the process once more, this time as a disinfectant. The ozonated water is then passed through filters to remove finer particles. To sustain the disinfection, chlorine is added, together with lime and fluoride.
And in four hours, the process is complete.
PUB says this is all part of a robust water supply system.
Lee Mun Fong, deputy director at PUB's Water Supply (Plants) Department, said: "We have a plant that is able to treat water with multiple barriers and on top of that, we have a system that monitors from the source all the way to our tap. So I want to assure our customers that our water is safe to drink, even from the tap."
In its full capacity, Bedok Waterworks supplies one-tenth of Singapore's demands, distributing water to areas like Tampines, Simei and Bedok.
Bedok Waterworks is one of two plants that have been using ozonation for more than two decades, due to the environment of its catchments which require more treatment.
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why murder cases are mostly foreigners?
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nowadays so many dead bodies floating in water.. next time some idiot try to plank on the water surface then ppl also will think it is dead body floating...
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let's put it this way, the water from bedok reservoir goes through processing then goes to the residents in bedok/tampines/simei area. Then the water from the houses in these areas gets recycled and redistributed to the whole of singapore. Therefore if you are worried about drinking fluids contaminated by this dead person, go get mineral water. Although I doubt the mineral water is dead people free too.
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Jeans may be reason why only lower body found
SEVERAL questions were raised when the lower half of a body was found floating in Bedok Reservoir on Monday.
Could it have been severed in a gruesome murder? How long has it been in the water?
The body is believed to be that of 23-year-old Chinese national Lin Xiao, who went missing two months ago.
He was last seen by his mother, Madam Hu Ping Zhu, 43, a kitchen assistant, when they were leaving home for work together on April 28 at 8am.
He lived with his mother in Chai Chee, which is near the reservoir.
Forensic experts The Straits Times spoke to yesterday say there could be another explanation as to why only the lower half of the body was found.
-- ST
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Jeans may be reason why only lower body found
SEVERAL questions were raised when the lower half of a body was found floating in Bedok Reservoir on Monday.
Could it have been severed in a gruesome murder? How long has it been in the water?
The body is believed to be that of 23-year-old Chinese national Lin Xiao, who went missing two months ago.
He was last seen by his mother, Madam Hu Ping Zhu, 43, a kitchen assistant, when they were leaving home for work together on April 28 at 8am.
He lived with his mother in Chai Chee, which is near the reservoir.
Forensic experts The Straits Times spoke to yesterday say there could be another explanation as to why only the lower half of the body was found.
They said it could have decomposed more slowly than the upper half because of the jeans found on the corpse when it was recovered from the reservoir.
'We would have to examine the remains to determine if the body had been purposely cut in half before it was dumped into the water,' said an Australia-based private pathologist who did not want to be named.
'However, two months of decomposition could have resulted in the upper body simply disintegrating.' He added that the bottom half may appear intact only because the jeans held it together.
As to why the body was not discovered for such a long time, experts said that it could have been weighed or held down, although dead bodies typically sink to the bottom first.
Dr Ong Chin Choon, who teaches forensic courses at Singapore Polytechnic, said: 'Shortly after, it would go through a process of anaerobic decomposition wherein carbon dioxide and methane gases released would cause it to float up.'
According to the experts, Singapore's hot weather would normally result in the body rising to the surface within two to four days. 'Assuming the body had indeed been in the water for two months, it would probably have been tangled in weeds or weighed down or it would have floated up long ago,' said Dr Ong.
He added that a typical mitochondrial DNA test to discover the victim's identity should take only one to two days to conduct if DNA is available from the mother. However, it is understood that the severe level of decomposition could extend the waiting time for DNA results.
On Tuesday, Madam Hu identified a belt on the body as belonging to her son. Keys found on the remains also fit the locks to her flat. She has contacted a funeral parlour and is arranging for the body to be cremated.
Police have not confirmed the identity of the victim, and investigations are ongoing as they continue their search for the missing half of the body.
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so it could have been totally decomposed?
wow. confirm, double confirm we gonna have a new reservoir
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Originally posted by TehJarVu:
Jeans may be reason why only lower body found
SEVERAL questions were raised when the lower half of a body was found floating in Bedok Reservoir on Monday.
Could it have been severed in a gruesome murder? How long has it been in the water?
The body is believed to be that of 23-year-old Chinese national Lin Xiao, who went missing two months ago.
He was last seen by his mother, Madam Hu Ping Zhu, 43, a kitchen assistant, when they were leaving home for work together on April 28 at 8am.
He lived with his mother in Chai Chee, which is near the reservoir.
Forensic experts The Straits Times spoke to yesterday say there could be another explanation as to why only the lower half of the body was found.
They said it could have decomposed more slowly than the upper half because of the jeans found on the corpse when it was recovered from the reservoir.
'We would have to examine the remains to determine if the body had been purposely cut in half before it was dumped into the water,' said an Australia-based private pathologist who did not want to be named.
'However, two months of decomposition could have resulted in the upper body simply disintegrating.' He added that the bottom half may appear intact only because the jeans held it together.
As to why the body was not discovered for such a long time, experts said that it could have been weighed or held down, although dead bodies typically sink to the bottom first.
Dr Ong Chin Choon, who teaches forensic courses at Singapore Polytechnic, said: 'Shortly after, it would go through a process of anaerobic decomposition wherein carbon dioxide and methane gases released would cause it to float up.'
According to the experts, Singapore's hot weather would normally result in the body rising to the surface within two to four days. 'Assuming the body had indeed been in the water for two months, it would probably have been tangled in weeds or weighed down or it would have floated up long ago,' said Dr Ong.
He added that a typical mitochondrial DNA test to discover the victim's identity should take only one to two days to conduct if DNA is available from the mother. However, it is understood that the severe level of decomposition could extend the waiting time for DNA results.
On Tuesday, Madam Hu identified a belt on the body as belonging to her son. Keys found on the remains also fit the locks to her flat. She has contacted a funeral parlour and is arranging for the body to be cremated.
Police have not confirmed the identity of the victim, and investigations are ongoing as they continue their search for the missing half of the body.
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More of WKS type logic in the police force.
How is it possible that the body got severed at the waist?
Surely some force must be applied, they don't just dislodge after decomposition if there is no force.
They speculate that the body could have been weighed down. How does a body with no foul play end up being weighed down (ie if the weighing down and buoyancy of the lower half caused the body to be severed).
Not finding the other half is bad, it could be in some water tank in some HDB block.
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Originally posted by βÎτά:
More of WKS type logic in the police force.
How is it possible that the body got severed at the waist?
Surely some force must be applied, they don't just dislodge after decomposition if there is no force.
They speculate that the body could have been weighed down. How does a body with no foul play end up being weighed down (ie if the weighing down and buoyancy of the lower half caused the body to be severed).
Not finding the other half is bad, it could be in some water tank in some HDB block.
Ah Tiongs are finally beginning to eat one another -
Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
Ah Tiongs are finally beginning to eat one another It's a dog eat dog world out there.
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Goodness. Just when you thought it's save to go back to drinking tap water... I so long haven't boiled water to drink liao. Only use filter. Now after the water tank case, and now the reservoir case, must start boiling again. Waste electric leh, and must wait so many hours for the water to cool down before can drink.
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Then how you explain the cases where feets were washed up after a sinking/plane crash in the sea.
Someone took the time to chop the feet off and scatter them on the beaches? Experts concluded the same reason why this happened...in this case, its shoes that did the job.
Its typical of varying stages of decomposition across the body to cause some parts to disintegrate before others.
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
Then how you explain the cases where feets were washed up after a sinking/plane crash in the sea.
Someone took the time to chop the feet off and scatter them on the beaches? Experts concluded the same reason why this happened...in this case, its shoes that did the job.
Its typical of varying stages of decomposition across the body to cause some parts to disintegrate before others.
Feets being washed up could be due to trauma of plane crash, or sharks and other marine creatures picking at it.
Could also be due to ocean currents trashing the body.
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Originally posted by βÎτά:
Feets being washed up could be due to trauma of plane crash, or sharks and other marine creatures picking at it.
The wonder of socks and shoes which are not washed for years...Even fishes siam them...
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Originally posted by βÎτά:
Feets being washed up could be due to trauma of plane crash, or sharks and other marine creatures picking at it.
Could also be due to ocean currents trashing the body.
Eh.Maybe there's the Loch Ness in Bedok Reservoir...
Its a military secret.
