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7-year-old boy commits suicide in Abuja

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna 

An oddity has occur as a primary school boy of about 7 years old. has reportedly committed suicide.

The sad incident happen in Byazin in Kubwa area of Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Thursday around 9am.

The cause of the dastardly act is yet to be ascertain at the time of filing this report. Neighborhood sources said the victim has been at home for over 3 months, most times locked up, due to FCT primary school teachers strike over minimum wage.

A witness also told our reporter that the suicide was committed right inside the room of the victim’s parents located behind CAC church, Byazin LEA primary school.

The victim whose identity was given as Samuel Osho, was reportedly found dead with a rope tied to a window iron by a senior sister who raised the alarm. 

The development sparked confusion as to whether a boy of his age could arrange for his suicide, but information had it that the parents who teaches in public and private schools left home for work before the  incident happened.

Eyewitness also said late Samuel Osho was the last born of the family of three children but was home with a senior sister on Thursday when he commit suicide.

Efforts to reach the parents were futile due to tension surrounding the cause of the boy’s death as the matter was allegedly not reported to the police.

“He died bleeding through his nose and feases coming through anus when we saw him with the rope tied round his neck, said the withness

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