Student stab Prof at NTU

Final-year male indo-chinese student stabbed Prof before commit suicide... the biggest news for the week... =.='

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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.

NTU identified the dead man as David Hartanto Widjaja, a 21-year-old Indonesian-Chinese student.

It said Professor Chan Kap Luk, 45, was in a stable condition in National University Hospital.

Mr Hartanto Widjaja and Prof Chan were both from NTU's Electrical and Electronics Engineering faculty, where the attack took place.

Reports say Mr Hartanto Widjaja had slit his wrists before leaping to his death. A statement from NTU said he had fallen from the top of a covered linkway between two buildings.

The glass roof of the linkway was splattered with blood.

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.

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.

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.

MSN