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Health: That stubborn teenager could be mentally ill

The student suspect in the Moi Girls fire tragedy  PHOTO BY GEORGE NJUNGE

In 2003, the country woke to news that a Form Three student had committed suicide at St Teresa’s Girls Secondary School in Kisumu.

It was reported that while her classmates were having supper, Maureen Agolla sneaked into the fourth floor of a building under construction and hanged herself using a neck tie. She was 18.

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