Shock as 13 year old girl commits suicide after being accused of stealing food

A girl, 13, from Koyucho village in Bondo Township Location of Siaya County committed suicide after she was accused of stealing food. The body the pupil at Gunda Sigomre Primary School was found dangling from a tree on Thursday morning. Maranda AP Commandant Inspector Boaz Odero said the girl had quarreled with her step brother who accused her of stealing food on Wednesday night.

“The information we got is that the deceased later went to sleep and woke up for school as usual, only to be found hanging on a tree behind her parents’ house at around 10am,” said Mr Odero. The incident comes just a few months after another pupil, 11, committed suicide in the area’s Sinapanga estate.

The pupil at Soweto Academy is said to have ended his life by hanging himself with a rope inside his parents’ house. Elsewhere, a 34-year-old fisherman drowned into the waters of Lake Victoria when their boat capsized at Mahanga beach in Mageta Island Bondo Sub-county last night. According to Mageta Location Chief Ambrose Ogema, Samson Onyango Odhiambo was in the company of three colleagues when the boat was hit by strong winds.