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Student killed by bizarre study method
Bangkok, July 18
A Bangkok university student has been found dead after a bizarre study method involving looping a belt around his neck and fixing it to a door handle went tragically wrong, a report said Thursday.
Eak Chongsawatwattana's mother told the Nation newspaper that the belt kept him awake while he was studying, a trick he had learned from other university students. If he nodded off, the jerk of the belt would wake him up.
"I warned him many times not to do this, but he just didn't listen. Now he's dead," she was quoted as saying.
Eak, 21, was reportedly found sitting upright at his desk with the belt still around his neck. His neck was bruised but there were no other signs of injury.
Forensics expert Dr Pornthip Rojanasunant told the daily it was likely Eak had died from a lack of oxygen to his brain.
Chavalit Muennuch, an executive at Assumption University where Eak was a student, told the Nation that the administration was looking into his death.
"I've never heard anything like this throughout my 28 years of work in school administration. This student sounds like a masochist. He tortured himself to succeed. This is not the proper way to succeed," he said.
He vowed to stop other students using the deadly method. Submitted on 07/18/2002
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Tim Finucane
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Bangkok, July 18
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