By Amelia Tan and Carolyn Quek

NEIGHBOURS in Block 349 Yishun Avenue 11 heard a loud thud, followed by piercing shrieks from several screaming women just after midnight on Thursday. Then it all went silent.

Several residents who were still up late on Thursday went out of their flats to check and saw a woman's body lying near the rubbish chute. She was clad in a floral sleeveless top and skin-colour panties.

She is believed to have fallen from the kitchen window in her flat.

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