Man arrested after 2-hour standoff with police at Changi Airport Terminal 3
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SINGAPORE: A man created a scene at Changi Airport Terminal 3 on Monday morning (April 25), climbing to the roof of a check-in counter, and refusing to come down.
He also waved an umbrella at police officers, and took his shirt off, a Shin Min Daily News report said.
An eyewitness tweeted at 9.06am: "There's some rando(m) nutter standing on top of a check-in counter at Changi airport and no one seems to care."
From photos posted on Twitter, he was shoeless, and wore a striped shirt and jeans at first.
In another photo, he was seen holding an umbrella, and was standing between two cardboard boxes.
"He's starting to build a little fort now," tweeted the eyewitness.
Traveller Ms Cai, 35, told Shin Min that she saw him standing there at about 10am in the morning.
"I don't know how he got up there, he was standing 3 or 4m above the ground, and took off his shirt when agitated," she said.
Some officials climbed up to talk to him but he waved his umbrella at them, Shin Min said.
It is understood that he thought he was being sent to Dubai for a work trip, but was in fact being sent back to Vietnam.
He finally climbed down by himself, ending the standoff.
Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it received a call at 10am in the morning about the incident at the airport. It sent a fire engine, a red rhino, two fire bikes, an ambulance and two support vehicles.
A man was apprehended prior to their arrival, and no assistance was required, SCDF added. - The Straits Times/Asia News Network
