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College student jumps to her death today
By Liang Yiwen |
March 18, 2011, Friday
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A Shanghai college student jumped to her death this morning after sending an SMS message "Goodbye" to her teacher.
The sophomore jumped from the 12th floor of a building in Shanghai International Studies University's downtown campus in Hongkou District about 10:30am.
Many students were having classes in the building when the incident happened.
A witness photographed the scene and uploaded them to t.sina.com, a Twitter-like microblog website, which immediately drew widespread attention.
The victim was a student of the English Language Department. Her classmates suspected that she probably killed herself over love affairs. The cause of her death is still under investigation.
Suicide has become a major cause of death for college students in Shanghai, according to a college safety report released by the city's education authorities in 2009.
Thirteen college students, including a foreign student, took their lives in Shanghai in 2009, more than those killed by disease and drowning.
Last year's figure has not been released yet.
The sophomore jumped from the 12th floor of a building in Shanghai International Studies University's downtown campus in Hongkou District about 10:30am.
Many students were having classes in the building when the incident happened.
A witness photographed the scene and uploaded them to t.sina.com, a Twitter-like microblog website, which immediately drew widespread attention.
The victim was a student of the English Language Department. Her classmates suspected that she probably killed herself over love affairs. The cause of her death is still under investigation.
Suicide has become a major cause of death for college students in Shanghai, according to a college safety report released by the city's education authorities in 2009.
Thirteen college students, including a foreign student, took their lives in Shanghai in 2009, more than those killed by disease and drowning.
Last year's figure has not been released yet.
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