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UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH

Dead man found jammed in Zurich uni window

Zurich city police are investigating the bizarre death of an 18-year-old man who was found jammed in the opening of a tilting window in a building at the University of Zurich.

Published: 24 April 2013 22:53 CEST
Dead man found jammed in Zurich uni window
Institute of education sciences at the University of Zurich. Photo: University of Zurich

The Portuguese man was spotted by a passerby who noticed the body trapped in an upper floor window shortly before 10.30am, police said.

The man was in the university’s institute for education building, according to local media reports. 

Police and rescue officials arrived on the scene but medics could only note that the victim was dead, police said.

Investigators acknowledged that the circumstances and causes of the man’s death remained unclear.

Experts from the Institute of Legal Medicine at the University of Zurich joined police in the probe.

Police issued an appeal to members of the public who may have relevant information to step forward.

Anyone who was in the vicinity of 35 Beckenhofstrasse between 5pm on Tuesday and 10.20am is asked to contact city police at 0444 117 117.

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UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH

University locks down after shooting false alarm

About 5,000 students and teachers at a Zurich university were told to lock themselves in their classrooms during a security alert on Thursday prompted by a false alarm of a shooting on campus.

Published: 4 December 2014 12:54 CET
University locks down after shooting false alarm
The Toni campus of the Zürcher Hochschule der Kunste (Zurich University of the Arts). Photo: ZHdK

Police deployed about 100 officers in riot gear to the Toni campus of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), which includes rooms used by Zurich University of Applied Sciences, but concluded that there was no danger.
   
They were alerted to an incident at 8:45am, at the same time as an alarm went off on campus telling students to find a safe place to hide, a police statement said.
   
Le Matin newspaper said a student had contacted the paper to report rumours of a shooting.
   
"Stay in the rooms or search for a locked room. Lock the doors and windows," said the message relayed around the university in German and English, according to videos posted by students on social media.
   
"Look for the safe part of the room. Remain close to the floor and keep calm. Wait for further information."
   
Officers, many of them heavily armed, secured the building and went from room to room evacuating students, police and a witness said.
   
The alarm was finally lifted shortly before noon, according to police, which said there was no danger and students had been asked to leave the building.
   
Investigations are under way into what caused the alarm.

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