A man collapsed and died on board an SBS bus on Monday after suffering breathing difficulties.
Ho Soo Kim, 62, a certified Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, was seated on the upper deck of SBS bus service number 8, on his way to Tampines.
A
witness who was seated behind Ho said that he saw him having difficulty
breathing, and then collapsing, which was when he informed the bus
driver and called the police.
A police spokesman confirmed that
they received a call at around 6:10pm requesting assistance along Ubi
Avenue 2, near A-Z Building.
Paramedics pronounced Ho dead at the scene.
Ho’s death came as a shock to his siblings, who told The New Paper that the 62-year-old had never been hospitalised in his life.
For Ho’s sister, housewife Ho Siew Eng, 73, the news did not register at first.
“My
brother told me Soo Kim had ‘gone’. I asked him, ‘Gone where?’ He
didn’t answer at first, so I thought Soo Kim had gone for a walk, or a
holiday.
“Then he told me. I was so shocked.”
She last
saw her younger brother and their five other siblings on Saturday at a
family gathering. She said that he looked happy and was laughing and
joking as per normal.
One of Ho’s younger brothers, odd-job
worker S Y Ho, 51, who shared a rented three-room flat in Potong Pasir
with him, said that his brother suffered from high blood pressure, and
complained of chest pains and dizziness a few weeks before his death.
“We
figured that since he did TCM, he would know how to take care of
himself. But we know he did go to a doctor recently and took medicine
for high blood pressure,” he said of his older brother, who used to help
out three times a week at the Red Swastika Charity Foundation in Tampines.
Police have classified the case as an unnatural death and investigations are ongoing.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/man-collapses--dies-on-sbs-bus-.html
case of pax passed away in bus..
SBS9205T Was the bus. Saw it at The particular bus stop with policeman at the upper deck on that day.
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Fated......rip.