Two more students die by suicide in TN
In string of student suicides in Tamil Nadu, two more school students of 11 and 12 reportedly died by suicide in separate incidents in the state, taking the number such deaths to five this month.
A class 12 student was found hanging at his residence near Karaikudi in Sivagangai district on Wednesday following which the authorities have initiated a probe into the incident.
“Last night, a class 12 student committed suicide by hanging himself at home. We are investigating the case. The autopsy was done. The body was handed over to his parents,” Karaikudi Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Vinoj told news agency ANI.Another Class 11 girl died by suicide at home in Virudhunagar district’s Sivakasi in southern Tamil Nadu on Tuesday night.
Virudhunagar SP M Manohar said a case of unnatural death has been registered and the body was sent for autopsy to ascertain the cause of death. An investigation into the circumstances of her death is underway, he said.
“Her parents told us that she
PLast night, a class 12 student committed suicide by hanging himself at home. We are investigating the case. The autopsy has been done. The body has been handed over to his parents.
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Karaikudi DSP
suffered severe menstrual pain which may have led her to take the extreme step… But that’s the parents’ version,” Manohar told HT.The death was reported on Tuesday when the girl was at home with her grandmother. Her parents, who work in a fireworks factory in Sivakasi, found her dead when they returned home.The incident came hours after another Class 12 student was found dead at her home in Virudhachalam in the Cuddalore district.
On Monday, a class 12 girl also died by suicide in Tiruvallur district in her hostel room in a government-aided school. A suicide by a class 12 student in the hostel of a private school in Kallakurichi on July 13 spotlighted the pressure on school children after her family suspected foul play in the 17-year-old girl’s death, leading to protests outside the school which erupted into a riot-like situation on July 17.
Reacting to a string of deaths, chief minister MK Stalin on Tuesday described the recent incidents of student suicides as painful and asked educational institutes to treat education as a service and not as a business. “Students should be taught to deal with any situation,” he said. On Wednesday, Stalin flagged off a mental health awareness drive for school students.
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