The site of the accident.
The accident occurred at 6 pm on October 17 when the students were waiting for the elevator in the yard which is located on Dien Bien Phu Street in Binh Thanh District.
A student said that she was queuing with some ten other students for the lift when hearing a loud noise behind and small pieces of concrete falling on her.
"I turned around to see a male student lying on the ground bleeding a lot with a big piece of concrete beside," she said. "We all screamed in fears and many ran away. Some people rushed in to help him but he was dead."
Some people witnessed the accident said that the concrete fell from a wall of an old building there.
According to the university, the victim was Nguyen Thanh Long, 29, a student at the Environment Technology Faculty. They are investigating the cause of the accident