Elderly woman lived with dead son for a week in Singapore flat


The police had to call in a locksmith to enter the flat, as the man's mother did not respond to knocking on the door. - SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Laundry was left hanging outside the three-room flat for a week.

It was a departure from what neighbours knew to be the daily routine of a private mother-son pair who lived in the fifth-floor flat in Block 85 Commonwealth Close.

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