11-year-old boy’s death suspected as suicide

GANGTOK, 23 Apr: An eleven-year-old boy is suspected to have committed suicide at 6^th Mile, Tadong on 22 April. The victim was a resident of Siliguri, residing at 6^th Mile, Tadong at present. On 22 April the Ranipool police received a “call-book intimation” from the MO on duty of Central Referral Hospital [CRH], Tadong stating that one 11-year-old child had been brought dead to the emergency ward. Medical examination reportedly suggested that the boy had died of hanging at around 4 pm that day. The case is under investigation.