Man Found at Foot of NTU Hall in Stable Condition

Posted On 17 Feb 2014

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Man found at foot of Hall 1 in stable condition, police investigating.

By Liu Ting Ting, Managing Editor

The 23-year-old man, who had visited his ex-girlfriend at her third-floor room at Hall of Residence 1's Block 15 this afternoon, was found on a grassy patch with minor injuries. PHOTO: YEO KAI WEN

CORDONED OFF: The 23-year-old man, who had visited his ex-girlfriend at her third-floor room at Hall 1’s Block 15 this afternoon, was found on a grassy patch with minor injuries.
PHOTO: YEO KAI WEN

The man who was found at the foot of Block 15 at the Hall of Residence 1 this afternoon is now in a stable condition at the National University Hospital (NUH), according to his sister who rushed down to see him.

The Nanyang Chronicle understands that the 23-year-old man, now warded for observation at NUH, is not a student from NTU and came to look for his ex-girlfriend at her hall room this afternoon.

According to the ex-girlfriend, who declined to be named, the couple had recently separated on amicable terms. She asserts that there was no dispute with her ex-boyfriend when she met him.

Shortly after 2pm, she left him to attend classes elsewhere in the school. “I was already on the bus on my way to class, but I rushed back to the block when I heard what happened,” she added.

The 22-year-old freshman later accompanied her ex-boyfriend to NUH in the ambulance.

Earlier at 2.30pm, the man was found by Hall 1 cleaner Mr Chong Teik Heng at the foot of Block 15 writhing on the ground, with cuts near his eye.

The third floor, where the man was said to have fallen from, only houses female residents. No one at the scene, however, saw how he fell off the block. PHOTO: YEO KAI WEN

UNSIGHTED: The third floor, where the man was said to have fallen from, only houses female residents. No one at the scene, however, saw how he fell off the block.
PHOTO: YEO KAI WEN

People at the scene whom the Nanyang Chronicle spoke to said they heard that he had fallen off the third floor of the building.

However, no one at the scene saw how he fell off the block.

Wang Jin, a final-year student from the School of Computer Engineering, who lives two doors away from the ex-girlfriend, said in Mandarin: “I heard a girl’s screams outside my door. I was shocked that a man had been walking around the third floor, which is for female boarders only.”

An eyewitness, a recent graduate who wanted to be known only as “Mr Tan”, then called the ambulance, which arrived 10 minutes later.

The case is pending police investigation.