Student stabs professor and jumps to death

— March 2nd, 2009, 1.42pm

Updated: March 2nd, 2009, 10.50pm

A final-year student allegedly stabbed his project supervisor in the office before jumping to his own death from a seven-storey building in NTU Monday morning.

The deceased student, identified as David Hartanto Widjaja, and was pronounced dead on the spot.

The injured don, Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk, suffered stab wounds on his back and arm and was rushed to the National University Hospital, where he went through some two hours of surgery.

There were no injury to his main arteries or organs, according to an email by the university’s president, Su Guaning, late Monday night.

In an earlier email to all staff and students, President Su promised a thorough investigation of the incident.

He wrote that the student “fell off the linkway” and died after he attacked the professor.

The university did not release the names of the deceased student and the victim until it had met with the parents of the deceased student “out of respect for the parents”.

Read more at the Straits Times.

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  1. peeeepers

     says:

    March 5th, 2009 at 1.07pm

    the coverage of this incident on the enquirer is surprisingly sparse, for a news blog run by ntu students. why not do some features or soft news on the impact on the student population, surveys and stuff?

  2. Xiong

     says:

    March 9th, 2009 at 11.43pm

    it is tough because the enquirer does not have much manpower, and its chief editor and deputy editor are currently interning as reporters in nepal. will only be back in singapore come june.

  3. Mavis

     says:

    March 30th, 2009 at 10.57pm

    Erm so until then you’re defunct?

  4. Concerned

     says:

    May 5th, 2009 at 10.02am

    The contents at here are getting more and more horrible.

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