Hey readers , these few days have been rather unusual . Especially the incident which
took placed on Tuesday .
2 bodies were found dead lying below Bukit Batok HDB flat .
| By Sujin Thomas | ||
 |  | Family members of Mernel Koh and Mr Eddy Afendi gather to identify their bodies at the spot where they were found. -- ST PHOTO: TERENCE TAN |
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Nine storeys down, the broken bodies of a 15-year-old girl and a man, aged 22, lay on the ground near Block 127 in Bukit Batok West Avenue 6.
They were found lying side by side, both clad in T-shirts and shorts.
Police are investigating the double deaths. Among the evidence they took away with them was the can of glue, the slippers and the wooden stool which were found on the staircase landing between the 9th and 10th storeys of the block.
The dead teenager, Mernel Koh, was a Secondary 2 student at Fairfield Methodist Secondary School.
The Chinese Indonesian man found beside her, Mr Eddy Afendi, was her older brother's friend. Mernel lived a few blocks away while Mr Eddy was said to live in Bukit Panjang.
At the crime scene yesterday afternoon, shell-shocked relatives and friends were there to identify the bodies.
Mernel's mother was seen weeping uncontrollably at the void deck and had to be propped up by relatives.
A woman, who looked to be in her 30s, identified Mr Eddy's body and was crying in the arms of a man who was with her.
Mernel's 19-year-old boyfriend, who wanted to be known only as Fairuz, said he had spoken to her on Monday night and did not sense anything amiss.
Fairuz said Mernel regarded Mr Eddy as her 'godfather' and would often spend time with him on weekends. He said he did not know if she was a glue- sniffer and sounded surprised when told a can of glue had been found near where the two had apparently fallen from.
A resident, Mr Rosman Ahmad-Dini, 39, said he came out of his house to check what was happening when he heard ambulance sirens just past noon yesterday.
He went down the flight of stairs and saw the chair, slippers and plastic bag. When the police arrived, he led them to the spot. 'The policeman pulled out a can of glue from the bag,' he said.
Dying from glue sniffing is rare, according to the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB). However, there have been a few cases in the Coroner's Court over the past two years where people who had fallen from height had apparently sniffed glue before they died.
Cases of inhalant abuse among youth here are on the rise. The CNB said 352 glue-sniffers were caught in the first half of this year, and 644 nabbed last year. In 2006, it was 403. Glue-sniffers can die of suffocation from even their first whiff. Inhalant abuse damages the brain, muscles, nerves and organs and causes hallucinations, anxiety and restlessness.
Yesterday evening, Fairfield principal Victor Owyong said the school was saddened by the death of a 'friendly, sociable and outgoing' student.
Her former classmate Melody Soh, 15, who was at the Bukit Batok block yesterday, told The Straits Times: 'I don't know why this happened. Eddy treated her like his own daughter.'
Adapted from : http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_284645.html?vgnmr=1 .but this incident made me rather moodless , but not to the extent of emo-ing , but I
just feel sorry for her , my friend & others . Her blog url , http://mernel.blogspot.com , but its been privated now.
Please offer your condolences to her .
Imagine seeing this person in your school today , the next morning , you flip through the newspapers & saw his/her name on the headlines , how would you feel , how would you react ?
Seriously , I would be stunned & if that person is my close friend , I would burst into tears ,
I must admit that I'm very sentimental . I didn't blog yesterday because of this incident ,
I just got no mood to blog , so yeah , blogging today .
All the posts that were posted by her friends' blogs were darn touching , I can't imagine
myself losing a close friend , argh , well , as a Christian , I will pray for you , Mernel .
for you , hope you're living in a better place right now ,
I offer my condolences to you .
After dinner , I stopped mugging for awhile , thats why I'm blogging now .
Gonna continue mugging soon , after which gonna bathe , yeah .
I have to say I'm missing my Girlfriend pretty much . Haven't been seeing her
for one week already , I wanna see her :( , aiyah , I don't know lah :/
Girlfriend I miss you so much ! I love you , I need you , I want you ,
I have you , I heart you , I leave you ( Nah just kidding , haha ,
I won't) :D .
I've been reading my super old blog posts and I kind of find them rather lame
and stupid == , lol I'm not saying that my posts nowadays are very interesting ,
but well , still better than last time ! Haha , okay , well , have to stop here , shall
continue some other day .
Goodbye !
Love .
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