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AN AMERICAN exchange programme student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) died after suffering breathing difficulties in his hostel room early yesterday morning.
Mr Scott Monat, 21, had been hanging out with a friend - it is believed the pair had been consuming alcohol - in his Prince George's Park Residences room when he apparently had trouble breathing at around 5am yesterday.
His friend then frantically screamed for help, and his calls roused fellow students at the hostel.
"He and some others had been making noise in the kitchen, then around that time he fainted," Christopher Aldo, a third-year engineering student told NUS student publication, The Campus Observer.
A report in the Miami Hurricane said that the cause of the University of Miami (UM) student's death has yet to be released by the police.
It also said that Monat was a National Merit Scholar before he came to UM and received the highest scholarship awarded at the university. He was also very involved in the Jewish student center on campus.
A Facebook group has been set up in memory of the deceased student.
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