Student jumps to his death after stabbing lecturer at Nanyang Technological University
A final-year male student jumped to his death after stabbing and wounding a lecturer at Nanyang Technological University today.
University officials confirmed that the young man was dead and that the professor, identified as Professor Chan Kap Luk, was in a stable condition in hospital.
Friends of the dead man identified him as David Hartanto, a 22-year-old Indonesian-Chinese student, and the university said his family had been contacted.
Mr Hartanto and Prof Chan, who is in his 40s, were both from NTU's Electrical and Electronics Engineering faculty, where the attack took place.
Reports say the Mr Hartanto had been who had slit his wrists before leaping off the multi-storey engineering building.
His body was found at the foot of the building.
Police at the scene were trying to establish a motive for the attack, which sent shockwaves across the campus and horrified friends and family of both men in Singapore and Jakarta.
"The university is deeply shocked and saddened by what has happened," NTU President, Dr Su Guaning, said in a statement.
"The matter will be investigated thoroughly. The university community will rally together at this difficult time and do our utmost to help the student’s family, the professor and his family, and those traumatised by the incident.”
Past and present NTU students were shaken by the incident.
They said the dead man had been a bright and friendly student who came to Singapore to study after graduating from SMUK 1, a top high school in Jakarta, where he had excelled at mathematics.
Mr Ivan Jeremiah, 23, an ex-NTU student who was also the assailant's schoolmate at SMUK 1, told MSN he was "shocked" by the tragedy.
"He was quite high-profile in school and used to appear in school journals and magazines," said Mr Jeremiah. "I never expected that something like this would happen to him."
Dr Su said the university’s counselling professionals have been mobilized to help.
NTU was helping the police with investigations, he said.
source: http://news.sg.msn.com/article.aspx?...mentid=2672318
A final-year male student jumped to his death after stabbing and wounding a lecturer at Nanyang Technological University today.
University officials confirmed that the young man was dead and that the professor, identified as Professor Chan Kap Luk, was in a stable condition in hospital.
Friends of the dead man identified him as David Hartanto, a 22-year-old Indonesian-Chinese student, and the university said his family had been contacted.
Mr Hartanto and Prof Chan, who is in his 40s, were both from NTU's Electrical and Electronics Engineering faculty, where the attack took place.
Reports say the Mr Hartanto had been who had slit his wrists before leaping off the multi-storey engineering building.
His body was found at the foot of the building.
Police at the scene were trying to establish a motive for the attack, which sent shockwaves across the campus and horrified friends and family of both men in Singapore and Jakarta.
"The university is deeply shocked and saddened by what has happened," NTU President, Dr Su Guaning, said in a statement.
"The matter will be investigated thoroughly. The university community will rally together at this difficult time and do our utmost to help the student’s family, the professor and his family, and those traumatised by the incident.”
Past and present NTU students were shaken by the incident.
They said the dead man had been a bright and friendly student who came to Singapore to study after graduating from SMUK 1, a top high school in Jakarta, where he had excelled at mathematics.
Mr Ivan Jeremiah, 23, an ex-NTU student who was also the assailant's schoolmate at SMUK 1, told MSN he was "shocked" by the tragedy.
"He was quite high-profile in school and used to appear in school journals and magazines," said Mr Jeremiah. "I never expected that something like this would happen to him."
Dr Su said the university’s counselling professionals have been mobilized to help.
NTU was helping the police with investigations, he said.
source: http://news.sg.msn.com/article.aspx?...mentid=2672318
