'Smell might be from a rotting animal carcass': Jurong residents notice stench, body of 80-year-old woman found in flat days later
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The decomposing body of an 80-year-old woman was found inside her flat on Wednesday (June 26), days after residents noticed a foul smell wafting into their homes. The discovery was made in a ninth-storey flat at Block 245 Jurong East Street 24 at around 5p'Smell might be from a rotting animal carcass': Jurong residents notice stench, body of 80-year-old woman found in flat days later
The decomposing body of an 80-year-old woman was found inside her flat on Wednesday (June 26), days after residents noticed a foul smell wafting into their homes. The discovery was made in a ninth-storey flat at Block 245 Jurong East Street 24 at around 5pm, reported Shin Min Daily News. A 34-year-old resident surnamed Chen, who lives in the unit directly above on the tenth floor, said that his family started noticing an odour from outside his bedroom window last Sunday. «A neighbour on our floor lives alone, so we were worried something might have happened to him,» he said. «But when we saw that he was safe and sound, we thought the smell might be from a rotting animal carcass.» When the smell worsened over the next two days, he contacted the Jurong-Clementi Town Council, whose staff visited the block on Monday and Tuesday but could not pinpoint the source of the stench. «They went into my bedroom and noticed the foul odour too,» Chen added. Read more
