In broad daylight some more!! Too much counterstrike?
Cops nab teens for Toa Payoh attack
By Hedy Khoo
October 14, 2008
SHE was trembling with fear and could barely speak.
The elderly woman, who seemed to be in her 60s, was so terrified by what she had seen that she had to sit for half an hour to regain her composure.
First she saw a fight in which a young man was stabbed. Then she saw two teenagers who were in the fight walk past. And she became even more traumatised.
The stabbing took place yesterday morning at Block163, Lorong 1 Toa Payoh.
Mr Thomas Tan, 53, the owner of a mini-mart in the adjacent Block 168 said the woman, who was a regular customer, had come to his shop around 9.45am and appeared badly shaken.
'She said she saw a fight and that someone was injured. Then she suddenly pointed at two teenagers who walked past my shop and said they were the ones involved,' he recalled.
'I only saw that one was wearing a black pair of bermudas and the other a khaki-coloured pair of bermudas. They were both walking away very quickly.'
The woman, who sat down on a stool outside his shop, 'couldn't stop (trembling)'.
He then went to Block 163 to take a look and saw a man lying face down on the ground in a puddle of blood. A doctor from a clinic nearby was already attending to him.
'I couldn't see very much except that he was on a drip and a few people were trying to stop his bleeding with a lot of cotton swabs,' Mr Tan said.
Around 11am, as Mr Tan was walking past Block 123 on his way to buy lunch, he saw the same two youths the woman had pointed out to him earlier.
'It was at the carpark, and they were both handcuffed and being escorted by several policemen to a police car,' he said.
Panic
He noticed that one of them had a bandaged hand.
Police said they were informed of a fight near Block163 at 10am. When they arrived, a man in his 20s was found with stab wounds. He was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital for treatment.
Within an hour, two suspects in their late teens were arrested nearby.
A clinic assistant, who gave his name only as Mr Pua, was one of the people who tried to help the victim.
Mr Pua, 34, who works at a clinic in Block 163, said that around 9.45am, a woman in her late 30s came in.
She was in a panic.
He recalled: 'I couldn't really understand what she was saying, but I gathered that someone was badly injured at the void-deck nearby.'
He rushed out and saw a thin young man in his 20s lying on the ground.
'His white T-shirt was soaked with blood, and he was bleeding profusely,' said Mr Pua.
He rushed back to the clinic and told the doctor, who quickly went to help the victim.
'We had to lift up his T-shirt and I saw five wounds on his back. A few passers-by also stopped to help and we tried to stop his bleeding according to the doctor's instructions,' he recounted.
'The doctor went back to the clinic to get more equipment and put the victim on a drip.
'We tried to talk to him to keep him conscious.
'He was very weak by then.'
The ambulance arrived shortly after.
Mr Pua, who has been working at the clinic for the past 10 years, said he was shocked.
'This is a quiet and peaceful neighbourhood of mostly old folks. We've had a few instances of people rushing in to get help before, but usually it is an elderly person who fainted or fell down.
'This is the first time I have come across such a serious case.'
Cops nab teens for Toa Payoh attack
By Hedy Khoo
October 14, 2008
SHE was trembling with fear and could barely speak.
The elderly woman, who seemed to be in her 60s, was so terrified by what she had seen that she had to sit for half an hour to regain her composure.
First she saw a fight in which a young man was stabbed. Then she saw two teenagers who were in the fight walk past. And she became even more traumatised.
The stabbing took place yesterday morning at Block163, Lorong 1 Toa Payoh.
Mr Thomas Tan, 53, the owner of a mini-mart in the adjacent Block 168 said the woman, who was a regular customer, had come to his shop around 9.45am and appeared badly shaken.
'She said she saw a fight and that someone was injured. Then she suddenly pointed at two teenagers who walked past my shop and said they were the ones involved,' he recalled.
'I only saw that one was wearing a black pair of bermudas and the other a khaki-coloured pair of bermudas. They were both walking away very quickly.'
The woman, who sat down on a stool outside his shop, 'couldn't stop (trembling)'.
He then went to Block 163 to take a look and saw a man lying face down on the ground in a puddle of blood. A doctor from a clinic nearby was already attending to him.
'I couldn't see very much except that he was on a drip and a few people were trying to stop his bleeding with a lot of cotton swabs,' Mr Tan said.
Around 11am, as Mr Tan was walking past Block 123 on his way to buy lunch, he saw the same two youths the woman had pointed out to him earlier.
'It was at the carpark, and they were both handcuffed and being escorted by several policemen to a police car,' he said.
Panic
He noticed that one of them had a bandaged hand.
Police said they were informed of a fight near Block163 at 10am. When they arrived, a man in his 20s was found with stab wounds. He was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital for treatment.
Within an hour, two suspects in their late teens were arrested nearby.
A clinic assistant, who gave his name only as Mr Pua, was one of the people who tried to help the victim.
Mr Pua, 34, who works at a clinic in Block 163, said that around 9.45am, a woman in her late 30s came in.
She was in a panic.
He recalled: 'I couldn't really understand what she was saying, but I gathered that someone was badly injured at the void-deck nearby.'
He rushed out and saw a thin young man in his 20s lying on the ground.
'His white T-shirt was soaked with blood, and he was bleeding profusely,' said Mr Pua.
He rushed back to the clinic and told the doctor, who quickly went to help the victim.
'We had to lift up his T-shirt and I saw five wounds on his back. A few passers-by also stopped to help and we tried to stop his bleeding according to the doctor's instructions,' he recounted.
'The doctor went back to the clinic to get more equipment and put the victim on a drip.
'We tried to talk to him to keep him conscious.
'He was very weak by then.'
The ambulance arrived shortly after.
Mr Pua, who has been working at the clinic for the past 10 years, said he was shocked.
'This is a quiet and peaceful neighbourhood of mostly old folks. We've had a few instances of people rushing in to get help before, but usually it is an elderly person who fainted or fell down.
'This is the first time I have come across such a serious case.'
