People stood and gawked after Yishun man falls from sixth storey

The crowd gawked while a man lay gravely injured at the bottom of the flat.

And when a good Samaritan, who was tending to him, asked a woman for an umbrella to shield the bleeding man from the rain, she refused several times before eventually relenting.

Their actions surprised Mr Vasudevan L.R, 44, an engineer, who had rushed to help when he heard a rustling sound outside his third-storey flat at Block 131 Yishun Street 11.

He said: "At first, I thought the rustling sound was from workers who had come to prune the trees."

It was actually the sound of a man hitting the foliage of a tree at the carpark of the opposite block.

He had fallen from the parapet outside his sixth-storey flat at Block 132 and survived partly due to the foliage breaking his fall.

His wife, who was watching the scene from their flat window, called the authorities.

Mr Vasudevan added: "There were so many people in the corridor just looking down and gawking, but nobody came to help."

"I couldn't speak Mandarin and he was trying to tell me something, but I couldn't understand."

He also sent his 13-year-old son running to a nearby police post to report the incident.

It then started to drizzle and Mr Vasudevan asked a woman passer-by for her umbrella, but she refused.

He begged her several times, but she still refused. It was only after he shouted that the middle-aged woman handed over her brolly, which he held over the injured man.

The police then arrived and Mr Vasudevan said that they talked to the man's sister, who seemed "visibly upset". He was eventually taken to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital and subsequently placed under arrest for attempted suicide.

The man has reportedly suffered multiple fractures and was warded in an intensive care unit. His right leg was put in a cast and his neck was supported by a brace.

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