An 8-year-old girl has committed suicide by hanging herself.
She had hanged herself by tying a towel around her neck and to a 1.8m high clothes rack on their apartment’s veranda, using a folding chair to reach the rack and as a platform from which to drop herself.
Her 29-year-old father immediately summoned emergency services, but the girl was later pronounced dead.
She is said to have been alone at home whilst her mother took other siblings to a nursery.
No note or other indication of why she chose to take her own life has been found.
Her parents previously complained to her school that somebody had vandalised her schoolbooks, writing her name and “die” on a total of 12 of them. At the time the girl took 8 days off school, but later returned.
The mother of one of her friends described her as “a polite little girl” and claims she was subject to harassment but seemed unaffected, whilst a local woman who knew the girl as “really cute” reports the girl had been the victim of physical abuse at the hands of classmates.
The school principal, pictured, feigns ignorance and denies any connection between the incident and the suicide.
