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What pushes children to suicide?

What pushes children to suicide? [istockphoto]

Towards the end of last year, the suicide of an 11-year-old boy from Kirinyaga sent shockwaves across the country. He had dug his own grave, telling his grandmother, that the deep hole she had found him digging was to plant a banana stem.

She convinced him to cover it back up, but a few hours later, he hanged himself using a rope inside the house.

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