Young man jumps from third floor of NTU residence hall after quarrel with ex-girlfriend
A 23-year-old male jumped from the third floor of a residence hall in Nanyang Technological University on Monday afternoon during a visit to his ex-girlfriend.
He landed on a grassy patch and was later taken away alive to hospital in an ambulance.
Nguyen Thanh, a student at the scene, told Yahoo Singapore that he was in his room at the first floor of Block 15 of NTU’s Residence of Hall 1 when he heard a shout at about 2:30pm.
“I was in my room studying. I was about to take a nap when I heard a male shout out very loud and I heard a crashing sound. I didn’t know what it was then I heard a female crying and I opened the door. I saw him [the man] lying on the ground and his ex-girlfriend and another person, the cleaner of the hostel, sitting next to him,” said the 23-year-old student.
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The ex-girlfriend was asking the man who jumped “Why did you do that?” and “What happened?”, said Thanh, who is an acquaintance of the girl.
Thanh said the man, who appeared to be in his early 20s, could only mumble in pain and did not respond.
A friend of Thanh called the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and an ambulance came 10 minutes later.
Paramedics asked the jumper questions but again he could not respond and was later taken away in the ambulance, Thanh added.
The ex-girlfriend, who is a student at NTU, told SCDF personnel that the young man came over to visit her and they talked. She then told her ex-boyfriend that she had classes and she was walking away before he jumped.
A spokesperson from SCDF said that the agency received a call about the incident at 2:29pm. They sent an ambulance which then conveyed a conscious 23-year-old Chinese male to the National University Hospital.
Police also arrived on the scene and talked to witnesses.
Attempted suicide in Singapore is a criminal offence and carries a jail term
