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14-year-old mentally ill boy kills self in Bauchi

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A young, 14-year-old boy commits suicide by hanging himself in an uncompleted room before his father reported to the police.

TopNaija reports that a 14-year-old, mentally ill boy, identified as Sadisu Haruna, has committed on Friday, February 18.

As confirmed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, a Superintendent of Police, via a telephone interview, the suicide incident happened at Dadin Kowa Street in Ningi Local Government Area of the state.


Moments after the incident happened, the father of the victim, Haruna Shuaibu, a 38-year old, reported the incident at the Ninigi Divisional Police Headquarters.

Wakil said that the father told the Police that his son, Sadisu, had a mental problem.

He said, “We have a case of Sudden and Unnatural Death. On the 18th February 2022 at about 12.00hrs, one Haruna Shuaibu, a 38-year old of Dadin Kowa Street, Ningi, reported at the Divisional Police Headquarters, Ningi, that his son, Sadisu Haruna, 14 years old, hanged himself at an uncompleted room in the house.

“Immediately the Police received that information, a team of Detectives led by the DPO moved to the scene and rushed the victim to the General Hospital Ningi, where he was certified dead by a medical doctor.

“Information received from the father of the victim indicated that the deceased has a mental problem.

“The Commissioner of Police, CP Umar Sanda, directed the DPO Ningi, to commence investigations immediately to unravel the cause of the death of the victim.”

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