TWO women undergraduates from Nanyang Technological University
(NTU) are believed to have killed themselves within a fortnight of
each other.
Both were found lying motionless at the foot of Housing Board
blocks - one in Ang Mo Kio and the other in Toh Guan Road.
Miss Cheryl Tan Qiwei, 22, was a fourth-year student majoring in
Chinese and communication studies, while Miss Gan Junru, 21, was a
civil engineering student.
The Straits Times understands that Miss Tan had told her parents
she was feeling depressed on Jan 11. She was found dead at the foot
of Block 431, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 later that day.
Interviewed yesterday, 15 days after her death, her mother, a
housewife who did not want to be named, would only say that her
daughter was a good student and it was unlikely she had been
stressed about school.
She declined to say more.
--ST
