Mother, daughter found dead at foot of HDB block

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Mother, daughter found dead at foot of HDB block
By Sabrina Chan | Posted: 15 April 2011 1917 hrs

Mother, daughter found dead at foot of HDB block

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 Jing, 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 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)."

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[Sauron]

Apr 16, 2011

Mum and girl, 9, fall to their deaths
Family had moved into Bukit Batok flat about three months ago

By Elizabeth Soh & Carolyn Quek

A man believed to be the husband of the woman and father of the girl who died, sobbing at the scene yesterday. The family also has a 16-year-old daughter who was at school at the time. Police have classified the case as unnatural death and are investigating. -- PHOTO: LIANHE WANBAO

A MOTHER and her young daughter fell to their deaths from the bedroom window of their 12th-storey executive flat in Bukit Batok early on Friday morning.

Madam He Xuejing, 46, and her daughter, Bao Peiqin, nine, were found at the foot of their block in Bukit Batok Street 24 at 7.20am.

Eyewitnesses said the pair fell together, landing close to each other on a grass patch below the window.

The mother died at once, but the daughter was seen writhing in pain by shocked residents and passers-by who were on their way to work or school.

Marketing manager Philip Devlin, a permanent resident from Australia, and his wife Faye were among those who tried to help them before the ambulance arrived.

They were alerted to the incident by the unusually loud thud they heard from their home on the fifth floor, and went down to take a look.

The mother was lying motionless with her limbs in an awkward position. The girl was gasping for breath.

Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.

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Apr 29, 2011

IN THE ST NEWSPAPER TODAY
Wake held for mum, daughter in death fall

By Elizabeth Soh

A Buddhist banner, printed with a photo of Madam He and her daughter Peiqin, hangs behind their open caskets. A family friend said they looked 'whole and peaceful'. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM

ALMOST two weeks after a mother and daughter fell to their deaths from their 12th-storey flat in Bukit Batok, their wake was finally held in Ubi yesterday.

Both caskets were open, and according to a family friend who did not wish to be named, Madam He Xuejing, 46, and her daughter Bao Peiqin, nine, looked 'whole and peaceful'.

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Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times