Teo Xuanwei
NEWS of her body being found on the 19th floor of the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai filtered through to Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) at about 8pm on Friday night.
Ms Lo Hwei Yen was found dead by Indian security personnel.
About one-and-a-half hours later, Ms Lo’s husband, Mr Michael Puhaindran, identified the body as that of his 28-year-old wife, making her the first Singaporean to have been killed in an overseas terrorist attack.
“We would like to convey our sincere condolences to the family of Ms Lo. This is a tragedy for all Singaporeans,” said a spokesperson from MFA, which alerted the media shortly before 6pm of a press conference later in the evening.
.... Ms Lo, a lawyer at Singapore-based offshore firm Stephenson Harwood, had been taken hostage on Wednesday night when armed militants took the Oberoi Hotel where she had been staying with guns and grenades.
Our deepest condolences to Michael and Ms Lo's family.
I don't know her or Michael, but ww knows Ms Lo. I feel sad reading about any loss of life, particularly needlessly in this case.
This is not about religion nor politics. This is about a small minded group of people trying to make a larger population live in fear because no one wants to listen or subscribe to their message.
I try to think the best of people, but in this, i think that there is special place in hell for the terrorists. May they rot there forever.
