"They started firing from the footbridge and the road. They shot my friend in the back of the neck. I pulled him up and my hands were all bloody. My friend took his head and I took his legs and we carried him in here."
The student with the white headband who told me how his friend died was one of hundreds sheltering inside Trisakti University campus in west Jakarta last night in an atmosphere of tension and fear.
They had just witnessed five young people shot dead and dozens injured by Indonesian soldiers as a student demonstration against President Suharto ended in violence.
Last night groups of students huddled in a small quadrangle surrounded by tall faculty buildings, fearful of military snipers and terrified to leave. Twenty military trucks, two water-cannon and two armoured cars were parked outside the place where the first student deaths occurred in two weeks of escalating campus demonstrations against price rises and Mr Suharto.
Inside the administration centre, shocked students and teachers said the soldiers and riot police had fired at them as they fled back into the campus. The shock was all the greater as Trisakti University is a private Christian college for the sons and daughters of the Indonesian elite.
Staff and students, working together in an atmosphere of siege, had transformed a conference room into a makeshift first aid point. Blood-soaked swabs lay on a table and the odour of iodine mingled with the peppery after-smell of tear-gas.
A hand-written provisional list of casualties in the registrar's office named two of the dead as Elang and Alan, both architecture students, aged about 20. It listed 19 injured from gunshot wounds, tear-gas and plastic bullets.
"Watch out, better be careful, sir, there are army snipers on the roof," shouted students in English cowering under a concrete overhang as I made my way with two other correspondents to the main building after getting in through a back gate, where university security guards appeared to be preventing students getting out.
Two shots had rung out 10 minutes before, but it was impossible to confirm where they came from. However, many said there had been a sniper on a footbridge across the nearby highway during the military assault on the students.
As we entered the main entrance hall about 100 students broke into applause, eager that their ordeal should be known to the world. In corridors and classrooms groups stood or sat smoking and talking.
A student came up to display a bullet-casing apparently from an automatic weapon. An army spokesman said last night only rubber-coated bullets had been fired.
"We were shouting about price rises and some were taunting the police, but there were no stones thrown," said a 22-year-old engineering undergraduate. "I was running and my friend, a girl, fell and they kicked her in the head."
About 5,000 students had demonstrated inside the campus at midday. When they attempted to march out to parliament in mid-afternoon the road was blocked by four armoured cars. They made speeches attacking President Suharto, whose image on one poster was doctored to make him look like Hitler.
A heavy downpour at 4 p.m. drove many students back into the campus. As dusk fell and the rain cleared, a plainclothes intelligence man was attacked by some students, witnesses said, and helmeted soldiers ran at the demonstrators with sticks. Some fired wildly in the air, others shot into the university and a shopping centre on the airport road.
"The students became angry when they heard the soldiers cocking their weapons, so they shouted at them. Then they fired," a student said. "Two of my friends are dead, maybe four."
Reporters were threatened by soldiers. One put a gun to the head of an Indonesian interpreter and said: "You want a picture, I'll give you a picture." A traffic policeman rescued a student from soldiers who were beating her up.
An official in the Sumber Waras hospital nearby said the five people killed had been shot in the head and back. Further student demonstrations are planned for today, with signs that popular support is ebbing fast for President Suharto, and a major confrontation with the army is looming.