Staff and students at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) packed the Duncanson Hall yesterday to pay their last respect to the final year electrical engineering student who was allegedly killed on Friday night.
At the funeral services, students and staff sat in tears while Unitech Acting Vice Chancellor Professor Muhammed Satter conveyed condolences to the family and relatives of the deceased on behalf of the school.
The university administration also contributed K10,000 towards the repatriation of the body of late Imbal Kapal Jnr of the newly established Jiwaka Province who was allegedly killed at the road side leading to Tent City.
After the funeral service yesterday afternoon, the body was taken to Jiwaka by relatives and friends of late Kapal Junior for burial.
Relatives at the funeral service confirmed that the autopsy report had indicated that late Kapal Junior was shot at blank point by a hand gun on his side and back. They said the deceased was with his friends drinking at the Jiwaka Club along the Igam barracks road earlier in the evening and returned to the campus at around midnight.
The relatives said the deceased told his friends at the campus that he had to meet one of his friends and but one of his cousins stopped him. They said the deceased refused and chased the cousin back to the campus and followed the main road leading up the Igam barracks and Jiwaka Club.
The relatives alleged that the deceased was shot at the scene where he was found at the side of the main road next to the PNG’s water plant at East Taraka.
Meanwhile, acting VC Prof Satter said circumstances surrounding the death of late Kapal Junior were being investigated by police and it was the duty of the police to find out how he died and if it was a murder.
Police investigations will bring forward the perpetrators to face the laws and dealt with accordingly.
Prof Satter
He said the rise of serious crimes has again driven fear within the community and the university has imposed restrictions on the movement of the people in and out of the campus during odd hours.