NTU hit by second suspected suicide

Singapore school hit by second suspected suicide

A Singapore university has been shaken by a second suspected suicide on campus in a week after a Chinese national was found hanged in his dormitory room, police and press reports said Sunday.

The body of Zhou Zheng, 24, a project officer with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University, was found by flatmates on Friday, a police spokesman said.

He was from the same school as David Hartanto Widjaja, an Indonesian student who stabbed and wounded a professor before committing suicide on March 2.

The Straits Times newspaper said the two were believed to have worked in the same laboratory in the school but quoted university officials as saying the incidents were unrelated and the two were unlikely to have known each other.

Zhou had previously worked with a memory-chip manufacturer but was retrenched last year as Singapore entered its worst economic recession.

He started his new job in the university, where he earned his engineering degree, on the same day Widjaja attacked the professor and killed himself by jumping off a pedestrian bridge in the school. 

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