Madhya Pradesh Class 12 student hangs to death due to exam stress
Press Trust of India | February 20, 2022 | 09:56 AM IST | 1 min read
The boy was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his home in Subhash Nagar area under Sehore Kotwali police station limits.
Sehore: A 17-year-old student of Class 12 allegedly committed suicide at his home in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district, police said on Sunday. The boy hanged himself on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday and it is suspected that he took the extreme step due to the pressure of his ongoing exams, but the exact reason would be known after an investigation, Additional Superintendent of Police Samir Yadav said.
The boy was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his home in Subhash Nagar area under Sehore Kotwali police station limits, he said.
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No suicide note was found in the room. The other family members were sleeping when he took the extreme step, the official said.
No further information could be collected from the family members as they were in a state of shock, he said.
In other news, two students, a brother and a sister, were killed and several others injured severely after two school buses collide in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
The police further informed that the bus driver has been booked for negligence and rash driving and he has been taken into custody.
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