Mr. Vu Quang Hoang Tu

... the second sad story ... and hopefully the last ...

it touched me very much for the couple of reasons ...
- unbelievable stupid death ...
- it happened on the day of my birthday ...
- the guy was like me, an overseas student studying in London ...
- it happened on the Earls Court Tube station (next to mine ...)
- the girl Thao, who sits next to me, knew the guy very well ...

Firstly I was told by Thao about this story ...


... yesterday the whole story was finally published in the Times newspaper ...

So Mr.Vu Quang Hoang Tu, 25 years old, originally from Vietnam was an architecture student at the Kingston University in London ... on 23 of November, he was on the way home standing at the rush hour on the Earls Court tube station and waiting for the train to arrive. Next to him were teenage members of some football club "play fighting".

Suddenly one of the teenage guys, 17-year-old Harry Smart, somehow (probably pushed by the friends) loosed his balance and on the way down ... trying to keep the balance cached Mr. Tu .... they felled down together into the path of an oncoming train...



Tu died while Harry survived with serious head and leg injuries ...

It was Tu dream to study in London, his parents helped him with the studying cost. The money has arrived from their life savings account, they saved it for the last 30 years ...

unbelievable stupid and valueless death ... :-(

for more reading ... see Times ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2485438.html