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Form four student commits suicide in school

A female form four student at Nyarongi Mixed Secondary School in Suna East Sub-county has committed suicide in the school’s dormitory.  According to the area assistant Chief, George Owiti, the

Form four student commits suicide in school
  • PublishedAugust 4, 2021

A female form four student at Nyarongi Mixed Secondary School in Suna East Sub-county has committed suicide in the school’s dormitory.  According to the area assistant Chief, George Owiti, the 20-year-old had been exhibiting symptoms of depression a day before her death and kept on saying that she would kill herself.

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Owiti added that the deceased spent Tuesday night under the watch of her friends before she was handed to a teacher who offered her counselling as they waited for her parents to arrive. Unfortunately, the teacher left for a short time to have breakfast and the girl rushed to the dormitory where she hang herself using a cloth.

It is not clear why the student committed suicide and investigations into the incident are ongoing. The incident comes barely two months after a class eight pupil in God Bura primary school in Suba Sub-county committed suicide in June this year after his family rejected his decision not to go to high school.

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