Tragic: After Watching Two Suicides, Bangalore Kid Hangs Himself To Death

Karthik, a seven-year-old student studying in Class Two hanged himself inside his school classroom on Monday and succumbed in a hospital the next day, DNA reports.

Police said, the image of his uncle hanging by a rope in his Bangalore home six months ago remained etched in seven-year-old S Karthik's memory. Watching the body of his school cook, who recently committed suicide by hanging, made him even more curious about death. The standard II student kept asking his cab driver father what it would be like to commit suicide before ending his life in a case of copycat suicide.

Karthik, a student of Nelamangala government primary school, Bangalore, tried to hang himself with a belt in his classroom on Monday while the other students and teachers attended the prayer assembly in the quadrangle.

When the teachers went to the classroom, Karthik was unconscious — hanging with his belt tied to the window grill. He was taken to the Matrushree hospital, but he breathed his last on Tuesday.


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