I just came back from buying lunch from NTU canteen near LT 1 when a friend of mine told us that there was a stabbing and suicide in NTU. General reaction -- shocked. What? Who? When? Why? Where?

An excerpt from The Straight Times (March 2, 2009):

"... A NANYANG Technological University professor was stabbed by his final-year project student, who later jumped off a bridge linking two buildings on the Boon Lay campus on Monday morning.

Professor Chan Kap Luk, from the NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, was stabbed in the back and arms in his office on the sixth floor of Block S1 at about 10.30am.

Moments after the attack, the fourth year 21-year-old Indonesian student is believed to have slit his wrists and jumped four floors down from the roof of a bridge linking the School of EEE and the Techno Plaza."

This is rather odd. Why would he do such thing? The reason is still unknown. Perhaps more updates tomorrow?

Labels: 2009, news, NTU, Singapore, tragedy

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