Schoolgirl commits suicide in middle of exam
In tomorrow's SMH :
A Hong Kong schoolgirl ran out of an exam she was sitting and jumped three storeys to her death, police said today.
Lo King-yee, 17, was midway through the examination when she ran out and clambered over the railings of a school corridor to commit suicide yesterday afternoon.
An ambulance crew raced to the scene at St Stephen's College in Hong Kong's Stanley district and declared her dead shortly after 3.30pm, a police spokesman said.
Seventeen Hong Kong students have committed suicide in the current academic year compared to just 12 in the previous school year.
Some sociologists say Hong Kong's rising youth suicide rate is partly due to excessive pressure to succeed on school children as well as a lack of communication between parents and their kids.
And this is where I'll be having my last exam tomorrow. You think anyone is crazy enough to run out of TELE3013 and jump to their death?