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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  Schoolboy, 10, found hanged amid spate of Hong Kong child suicides Thurs Jan 1 2004 22:39:11 ET Hong Kong (dpa) - A 10-year-old Hong Kong schoolboy has been found hanged, police said Friday, in the latest of a series of apparent child suicides in the territory. The boy was found hanging from a towel on the staircase of his home in Hong Kong's Tai Po district near the Chinese border on New Year's Day, a police spokesman said. He was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead within hours of his admission, the spokesman said. If confirmed as suicide, his death would be the sixth student suicide this academic year. The incident comes weeks after an 11-year-old girl leapt to her death after an argument with her mother over homework in their 11th floor apartment in Hong Kong's Tuen Mun district. In November, another 11-year-old schoolgirl hanged herself and a 15-year-old girl leapt to her death from a high-rise block. Education officials in Hong Kong expressed concern about the death of the girl and a spate of other suicides involving schoolchildren in the last quarter of 2003. Sociologists say many schoolchildren in the former British colony are put under too much pressure to succeed by workaholic parents and do not communicate their anxieties and problems to their parents. Despite the recent spate of cases, however, the overall number of student suicides in Hong Kong fell from 14 in the 2001-2002 academic year to 12 in the 2002-2003 academic year. |
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