SINGAPORE: A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) full-time National Serviceman died during training on Tuesday.
Private (PTE) Lee Rui Feng Dominique Sarron, 21, from the 3rd Battalion of the Singapore Infantry Regiment, experienced breathing difficulties at about 12.30pm while participating in a platoon exercise at Murai Urban Training Facility at Lim Chu Kang.
A statement from the Defence Ministry said he lost consciousness soon after at 12.33pm.
Mindef said an SAF medic attended to him immediately.
Private Lee was sent to Sungei Gedong Medical Centre at 12.46pm and then to the National University Hospital (NUH) at 1.03pm.
An SAF doctor continued to resuscitate him in the ambulance en route to the hospital.
He was pronounced dead at 2.05pm at NUH.
This is the third reported death involving SAF personnel this year. The earlier two involved an NS man in January, and a full-time NS man in March.
- CNA/de
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