Singapore's NTU stabbing incident leaves one dead and another injured
Posted: 02 March 2009 1532 hrs
NTU lecturer injured after being stabbed by student
Eyewitness and Police comments on NTU stabbing
SINGAPORE: A final year engineering student at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) jumped from a campus block after stabbing a professor Monday morning.
The professor was in his office at the engineering faculty when the student stabbed him in the back with a knife, leaving him injured.
After stabbing, the male student, who was in his 20s, slit his wrists and jumped off a five-storey high building.
Police say they received a call about the incident at 10.35am, and arrived to find the student dead at the bottom of the engineering block.
Eyewitnesses had also told Channel NewsAsia that a person had been stabbed, and that a student, believed to be an Indonesian-Chinese had slit his wrists before jumping off a building.
An NTU spokesman later confirmed that a final year student from the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering was involved in the stabbing.
It however did not name the two people involved, and only said that their next-of-kin had been notified.
The incident is believed to involve Professor Chan Kap Luk, who was left with injuries on his back and arm and was sent to the National University Hospital for treatment.
The professor who has been with NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, since June 1992 is said to be in a stable condition.
Professor Chan, a Singaporean in his 40s and Deputy Director of the Biomedical Engineering Research Centre at NTU, is said to have been the supervisor of the student in a project.
NTU's president, Su Guaning, pledged to help the families of the professor and student and has mobilised its counselling professionals to help.
The University president also said the matter will be investigated thoroughly.
"The university is deeply shocked and saddened by what has happened… 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."
- 938LIVE/CNA/sf
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