Residents of Edo have been left in shock after a 13-year-old girl reportedly took her own life.
Iwezoa
A teenage girl of 13 has reportedly taken her own life in Edo state.
According to Channels Television, the girl named Precious Iwezoa allegedly committed suicide at her grandmother's residence on Number 6 Osagie Street, Off Lucky Way Road, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo state.
Channels TV reports that Precious's dead body was found hanging with a rope inside the compound. An alarm was raised and her grandmother was immediately alerted.
The teenager who lost her mum when she was two years old, had been living with her paternal grandmother since 2017.
The distraught grandmother, Janet Ohioma, narrated that Precious had earlier helped her to heat her food and later sat in the living room watching the television. She said she did not expect to see the lifeless body of her teenage daughter.
“I thought Precious had run away from home as she had done before but was found by a neighbor. When I got to where Precious was, I fell” the devastated grandmum said
Officers from the Edo State Police Command who visited the scene assured that the incident will be investigated but ruled out foul play. The spokesperson of the state police command, Bello Kontongs, said
“The police has removed the body and deposited for preservation at our clinic at Ikpoba Hill while investigation is on to unravel the cause of her hanging herself.
It is said for me reporting that a thirteen-year-old who has not even started life, is hanging herself for reasons only known to her because there was no suicide note and observing the body, for now, I can said there was no foul play. She actually hanged herself.''