NTU sees second suspected suicide case in one week
By 938 LIVE/ Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 07 March 2009 1329 hrs

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SINGAPORE: A man from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has been found dead in his apartment unit on the campus.

24-year-old Zhou Zheng was found hanging from the balcony of his apartment at Block 101C Nanyang Heights, where staff and graduate students reside.

Police said Saturday they received a call at around 10.30pm on Friday night and when they arrived, the body had already been brought down to the floor.

The man was pronounced dead at 10.55 pm.

Zhou, from Hubei, China, graduated with a Second Class Upper Honours from the NTU’s Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department in July last year.

He started work with a company right after graduation but was laid off two months later.

After looking for a job for several months, he joined NTU as an infocomm project officer at the university's School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering on March 2.

In a statement released Saturday, NTU said professional counsellors and senior university officers were activated on site to offer support.

The man's parents has since been notified.

NTU has also found temporary accommodation for Zhou’s flatmates.

When news radio team 938LIVE visited the area shortly after midnight, there were hardly any signs of disturbance.

Those who 938LIVE spoke to said the residents there kept mostly to themselves, and hardly interacted with one another.

NTU's president Su Guaning said they are deeply saddened by the loss.

This is the university's second suspected suicide case in less than a week.

Both involved men were from the university's School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

On Monday, a 21-year-old Indonesian undergraduate was believed to have slit his wrists and jumped to his death after allegedly stabbing his professor on campus.

- 938LIVE/CNA/yb/yt