The badly decomposed body of a 49-year-old man was discovered just outside Republic Polytechnic (RP) last weekend.
Source: Google Maps
The police have classified the case as an unnatural death.
According to a contractor who spoke to STOMP, landscape workers found the body while trimming grass at around 2.30pm on Saturday (19 Aug).
It was already badly decomposed when they found it.
Photos shared with the citizen journalism website showed several police officers wearing masks and gloves standing atop a slope outside the perimeter fence of the polytechnic.
Some of them were covering their noses, likely due to the smell.
Other photos show the body lying on the slope next to the fence but outside the poly.
The section of fence is opposite block E5.
Source: Google Maps
To conduct investigations, the source informed STOMP that police cordoned off a section of grass patch for several hours.
A police hearse eventually took the remains away by 6.30pm.
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) told STOMP that they were alerted to the presence of a body at 7 Woodlands Avenue 9 — RP’s address — on Saturday (19 Aug) at 2.45pm.
It belonged to a 49-year-old man, SPF added, referring to the case as one of “unnatural death”.
Based on preliminary investigations, police don’t suspect foul play.
RP received information on the matter from the police, a spokesman for the polytechnic told STOMP.
While the body was found outside their compound, the deceased isn’t a member of the RP community, they established.
They declined to comment further, citing police investigations.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t the first of such unnatural deaths this year.
In June, a Singapore Armed Forces regular was found dead at Changi Naval Base.
In April, a vendor found a man dead inside a stall at Bukit Merah Hawker Centre.
And in February, an elderly man was found inside the carpark of Golden Mile Complex.
MS News sends our thoughts and prayers to the loved ones of the deceased.
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