It was a warm night, I was half asleep. It should be about 3am when I heard a sudden loud noise. It sounded like roof collapsing near by. First thing came to my mind was something must have fallen out of a high floor unit within my condo complex and crash down on the roof of the lower floor.
I rushed out to my balcony and looked out for what was happening. As I glance around, I couldn’t see anything unusual. It was about 3.10am then, obviously it’s too dark to see. I could only see a few guards was running towards their control room.
Within another 10 minutes, a patrol car arrived at the scene. Police started to set parameter around a spot. By then, I’ve made my way down to check out what was that all about. My instinct was someone could have fallen off from high floor. That prove to be right, I couldn’t believe what laid in front of my eyes.
The body was covered with black sheet of canvas when I arrived at the scene. Broken roof tiles was all over the place. Blood was seen flowing under that black sheet of canvas.
Medic came few moment later and examined the body. The man was pronounce dead and so they left the body to be pick up by police instead of being carried away by their ambulance.
The body was being laid there for quite some time before they load it up in one of their patrol truck. Some of the police went up to search on a few suspected unit which the guy couldn’t have fell out from. I didn’t know what was the outcome, but the deceased is a African, dressed only in t-shirt and naked from the waist down when he fell. His legs were badly twisted with a few long deep cuts that probably caused when he crash through the roof. His face was covered with blood flowing out from his nose and mouth. I don’t think someone who wants to commit suicide would jump down naked, unless he’s drunk. Whatever’s the cause of his fall, my heart goes out to his family back from where he came from.
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