[h=2]21-year-old NSF dies during training exercise[/h]
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Full-time National Serviceman Lee Rui Feng Dominique Sarron died this afternoon while participating in a training exercise.
The 21-year-old private (PTE) with the 3rd Battalion Singapore Infantry Regiment experienced breathing difficulties during a platoon exercise at Murai Urban Training Facility located in Lim Chu Kang.
This happened at about 12.30pm this afternoon, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defence (Mindef).
PTE Lee subsequently lost consciousness at 12.33pm.
He was immediately attended to by a medic and then evacuated to Sungei Gedong Medical Centre at 12.46pm.
There a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) doctor attended to him.
PTE Lee was then sent to the National University Hospital (NUH). En route to the hospital, an SAF doctor continued to resuscitate him in the ambulance. PTE Lee was pronounced dead at 2.05pm at NUH.
The Ministry of Defence and the SAF extend their deepest condolences to the family of the late PTE Lee. Mindef is assisting the family in their time of grief and is investigating the incident.
Full-time National Serviceman Lee Rui Feng Dominique Sarron died this afternoon while participating in a training exercise.
The 21-year-old private (PTE) with the 3rd Battalion Singapore Infantry Regiment experienced breathing difficulties during a platoon exercise at Murai Urban Training Facility located in Lim Chu Kang.
This happened at about 12.30pm this afternoon, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defence (Mindef).
PTE Lee subsequently lost consciousness at 12.33pm.
He was immediately attended to by a medic and then evacuated to Sungei Gedong Medical Centre at 12.46pm.
There a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) doctor attended to him.
PTE Lee was then sent to the National University Hospital (NUH). En route to the hospital, an SAF doctor continued to resuscitate him in the ambulance. PTE Lee was pronounced dead at 2.05pm at NUH.
The Ministry of Defence and the SAF extend their deepest condolences to the family of the late PTE Lee. Mindef is assisting the family in their time of grief and is investigating the incident.