of stabbing in ntu - student stabs professor, jumps

Student stabs prof, jumps: NTU student David Hartanto Widjaja stabbed Professor Chan Kap Luk and later jumped off four floors down from the roof of a bridge linking the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Techno Plaza.





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Professor Chan Kap Luk is the Deputy Director of Biomedical Engineering Research Centre, at the NTU's division of Information Engineering. He has been with the School of EEE since 1992.

NTU released a statement, saying

A final year student, David Hartanto Widjaja, 21, from the electrical and electronic engineering school is believed to have stabbed Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk, 45, this morning, 2 March 2009, and to have subsequently fallen off the linkway between two blocks.

The ambulance and the police were called immediately. Mr Widjaja was pronounced dead. Mr Widjaja's parents and Prof Chan's family members have been notified. Prof Chan is receiving medical treatment at the National University Hospital and is recovering well.

Click here to read the updated statement from NTU.



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[via Public Education]