WHAT: Cleaner proposes to student, then stabs her

A 20-year-old Nanyang Polytechnic nursing student was stabbed on the morning of Dec. 20 by a 30-year-old cleaner. 

The assailant, whom the victim Pavithra Gunashekaran had met during her attachment at a hospital, was said to have proposed to her the night before the incident. 

According to a report by Channel NewsAsia, Pavithra’s mother had heard her daughter screaming and had rushed downstairs with her husband. 

Photo: Screenshot of video by Channel NewsAsia

 




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