Bengaluru: 12-year-old girl commits suicide by jumping from 29th floor flat; Police say she was depressed

A 12-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the balcony of her 29th floor flat on Begur Road in southeast Bengaluru’s Hulimavu area, police said on Wednesday. The 7th class student was the only child of her parents.

Without sharing further details, police said the girl was depressed.

However, no suicide note has been found yet.

According to the police, a security guard of the apartment complex heard some noise around 5 am on Tuesday and rushed to the corridor, where he saw the girl lying injured and covered in blood.

He immediately alerted the apartment association representatives.

The girl was taken to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead, a senior police officer said.

He said the girl’s mother found her outside her room around 4.30 am and when asked why she got up so early, she gave a vague answer and went inside her room.

“It is a suicide. We did not find any suicide note but we learned that the child was depressed. “The post-mortem has been done and we cannot give any further details,” he said.

Police said the girl’s father, a software engineer, left his job six months ago and took up stock trading and her mother is a housewife.

(With PTI inputs)

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