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Boy commits suicide to avoid joining Class Eight

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A pupil committed suicide in Gwassi Central in Homa Bay after his family rejected his decision to stop going to school.

The pupil at God Bura Primary School in Suba Sub-county reportedly went missing from home on Friday last week only for his body to be found dangling from a tree in a bush near his parents’ home at Kimoro village.

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