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BOY (10) HANGS HIMSELF IN PIT LATRINE AFTER VIOLENT MOVIE

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MBABANE – Monkey see and monkey do is what a 10-year-old boy did when ending his life on Friday.


The Grade III pupil hanged himself in a pit latrine after watching an action movie.
The incident, which has left residents shocked, occurred at Lobamba on Friday.


A source said the children watched a movie filled with violence on the day and there was a scene where there was a person hanging himself.
The young boy is alleged to have told his friends that he could also hang himself.


As the elders were not home and the other children were concentrating on  to the movie, he went out of the room and took a rope and went to the toilet ‘to perform the stunt’.
None of the children noticed that he had disappeared for long, until he was found in the afternoon hanging in the toilet by his mother who had returned from work.


Help


After the gruesome discovery, his mother called for help and the police were also called to the scene and brought the boy  down before taking him to hospital where he was confirmed dead.
According to a source, the children in the homestead, which is at Lobamba, had been left with an elder.
When the incident occurred, the elder had allegedly left the compound to visit some neighbours.


News of the death of the young boy, who was attending school in one of the primary schools in the area, spread around Lobamba, as people were telling their different versions of what happened on Friday.
When the homestead was visited yesterday, a number of people had come to offer their condolences while some were there to offer prayer to the family.


His mother and grandmother were also found in the premises and they stated that they would not like to talk about the matter as it was still too soon.
The grandmother of the deceased boy explained that they were still to meet as a family and discuss the matter, and as such they could not discuss it with the media.

 

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