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Another adolescent suicide in Beida

byNigel Ash
October 22, 2017
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Another adolescent suicide in Beida

Downtown Beida (File photo)

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By Libya Herald reporters.

Downtown Beida (File photo)
Beida where young people are taking their own lives (File photo)

Benghazi, 22 October 2017:

Beida has been shocked by the suicide of yet another young person, this time a 14 year-old boy who, like so many of the 32 other such deaths that are known, took his life by hanging.

Suicide is generally a taboo subject. But this April  when a young woman in the first year of her English course at the town’s The Omar Mukhtar university hanged herself, it emerged that hers was the tenth suicide in just over a month.

The university closed for three days out of respect for the girl. Meanwhile, Abdullah Thinni’s interim government, which is based in the town, set up a commission to try and work out what was happening.  Speculation has ranged from online suicide grooming to demonic possession as the result of playing a game known as “Charlie Charlie”.  Also being considered is the possibility that as Libya’s conflicts showed no sign of ending, young people were succumbing to despair.

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The commission has yet to publish any results. However, while it has  been investigating, the suicides  have continued, the oldest victim being a 32 year-old woman who hanged herself at the end of last month. The youngest person known to have taken their own life was an 11 year-old girl who jumped from the sixth floor of a building in the town.

 
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